John Sargent’s memoir reveals an informed guide to modern publishing, and then some: from heading up Macmillan to fighting off Amazon.

Philip Schultz and Grace Schulman talk poets and poetry at Duck Creek, while A.M. Homes and Carl Bernstein hash out the political moment.

Just as Tropical Storm Ophelia ushered out summer, Ken Morse, the man behind Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor, is moving out — to Southampton.

Field hockey, undefeated as of Monday, continued to give Bonac plenty to cheer about, defeating Sayville 2-1 here last week, while boys soccer bageled Westhampton Beach 4-0. The football team, however, lost its homecoming game with Harborfields.

They ran 48 miles over the course of 48 hours, with cat naps in between four-mile jogs, raising more than $145,000 for the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Parkinson’s disease research work.

Rick Slater would have quarterbacked the 1978 East Hampton High School football team, but three “taxpayer revolt” budget defeats torpedoed the team. “It’s still a nightmare,” he said.

Well into a career in television production, and without an art background, Isabella Rupp decided to try her hand at glass art, a leap that turned into a 20-year deep dive yielding exhibitions, prizes, and a wide-ranging body of work.

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival is back, with four days of music, much of it free, scattered throughout the village in restaurants, shops, Steinbeck Park, Bay Street Theater, and just about everywhere else.

“Lee Krasner: Portrait in Green” at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center focuses on an important year for the artist, when she created one monumental painting and a series of gouaches.

Immigration in New York State is the theme of three eclectic music programs and a film series at the Montauk Library.

Robert Wilson, the Watermill Center’s founder and artistic director, was honored with four other prominent artists by Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton at the White House.

Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor is featuring an exhibition of Peter Spacek’s scrimshawed drawings on fiberglass, surfboards repurposed as sea creatures, cartoons for The Star, and more.

Celebrating Bonac history and art at Duck Creek, Long Island Modernism talk at LongHouse, open calls from Bay Street and Center Stage, Alec Baldwin's live podcast, fund-raiser for Our Fabulous Variety Show, rock and jazz at the Masonic Temple.

Lauren West solo at Tripoli, seven watercolorists at Ashawagh Hall, Hiroyuki Hamada at the Parrish to discuss his Road Show, two painters at Keyes, mixed-media works at Lucore Gallery.

Tracy Stoloff’s Night Owl Baker triple-fermented sourdough loaf has convinced local nutritionists and international lifestyle gurus to come back to bread.

Almond’s Artists and Writers dinner with Georgette Grier-Key, wine classes back at Park Place, Springs Salt now ships, pizza pop-up in Southold, Wolffer rosé on sale, Ride and Wine benefit for I-Tri.

Just in time for the onset of colder weather and a greater number of indoor activities, free at-home Covid tests can once again be ordered for delivery starting on Monday.

Mandala Yoga and Center for Healing Arts in Amagansett will host a restorative yoga class with singing bowls to raise money for families experiencing loss in Maui on Friday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Scoville Hall. Gian Carlo Feleppa on sitar and Will Ryan on flute will join Brittni, the instructor, whose family has lived on Maui for more than 30 years. 

The East Hampton Library deserves a vote of confidence on Saturday.

On Tuesday afternoon, the United States Department of Education announced that the Amagansett School has been named a National Blue Ribbon School, a prestigious and difficult-to-obtain honor that is based largely on students’ academic performance. Though there was applause, the announcement did little to ease the tension in the room at a board meeting later in the day, as it quickly became apparent that parents and teachers had come prepared with pointed questions about how school operations have been running lately.