“Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine” is a massive compendium of text, photographs, lyric sheets, and other artifacts, published by Nicholas Callaway of East Hampton, who reflects on the book and on his own career as a publisher who aims to “make the printed page sing.”

The life and photography of Elliott Erwitt, who died last month, are chronicled by a writer who briefly met Erwitt in Amagansett as a boy and went on to follow his work, including a recent retrospective in Paris.

Unique and affordable holiday gifts can be found in gallery exhibitions, on South Fork art and cultural organizations' websites, and at the Parrish Art Museum shop.

At the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead this weekend the Long Island Concert Orchestra will perform a program of holiday classics, and the Lords of 52nd Street will celebrate Billy Joel.