The characters in Jeffrey Sussman’s “Big Apple Gangsters” are occupied with bootlegging, garbage collecting, cement mixing, heroin dealing, and killing, mainly each other. The action extends to Mussolini, Batista, J. Edgar Hoover, Joe DiMaggio, and, the coup de grace, Rudy Giuliani.

The Amagansett Library's copy of "Great Heart: The LIfe Story of Theodore Roosevelt" was belatedly returned, the late fee waived. It had been checked out on April 5, 1949, and was returned on Friday, approximately 71 years and nine months overdue.

Trying to capture the essence of William Quigley is like chasing after a drop of water in a pond. The words come fast and his stories spread out so quickly, it's near impossible to grasp their entirety.