Literature

“So Long, Big Duck” book has been in Mr. Holme’s mind for years, slowly taking form on handwritten spiral notebook pages that gathered in what his friend, editor, companion and caretaker Fiona Molloy Lepperd calls the “creative mounds, mountains of paper and notes and poems” scattered all around his place near Key West, where he moved with Kate Wyckoff-Holmes around 2011. She died there in 2016. Turning those pages into a sweet, enchanting yet soulful children’s book about two city kids’ summer visit to “Deep Harbor” (a dead ringer for Sag Harbor) was an effort led by Ms. Lepperd and Mr. Holme’s Sag Harbor friends Reynold Ruffins, the artist and retired commercial illustrator, and graphic designer Charles Grubb of C D Grubb Photo Graphics.

East Hampton Library’s 15th annual Authors Night fundraiser is Saturday, August 10, and will be held under a tent on the “555” field in Amagansett on the north side of Montauk Highway.

Journalist, design expert and part time Sag Harbor resident Wendy Moonan will be at Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton on Thursday, August 1, at 5:30 p.m., to discuss New York’s best residential spaces.

In Colson Whitehead’s new novel “The Nickel Boys,” two young black men endure the horrors of a Jim Crow-era reform school in 1960s Florida.

As part of its 35th season, on July 26, the Hampton Library’s Fridays at Five series will present Laurence Maslon. The author will talk about his latest book, “From Broadway to Main Street:  How Show Tunes Enchanted America.” 

Paul Goldberger is most widely known as an architecture critic, having written on the topic for decades at The New York Times and from 1997 to 2011 at The New Yorker.

Last week, Cristina Alger’s newest novel, “Girls Like Us,” was still days away from its launch on Tuesday, July 2, but her East End...

Talks, tapas and literature on the lawn — it doesn’t get much better than that. The Quogue Library will kick off its “Conversations with the...

Montauk, Long Island, 1938. For three months, this humble fishing village will serve as the playground for New York’s wealthy elite — and Beatrice Bordeaux...

For its 25th issue, The Southampton Review has gotten itself a literary lift. Featuring work by Rick Moody, Alicia Mountain, Rachel Lyon, Lisa Locascio, Katherine...

In honor of this year’s summer reading theme, “A Universe of Stories,” award-winning author Dava Sobel will discuss her book, “The Glass Universe: How...

The voice behind hundreds of audio books is bringing Shelby Raebeck’s “Louse Point: Stories From the East End” to life — in real life. Alongside...

Signature, flowing floral borders. Artful integration of native and well-adapted plants. Dramatic, multi-dimensional vistas. Landscape designer Frederico Azevedo has honed his look — and bound...

Part-time East Hampton resident Jeffrey Sussman loves to write about boxing, and he’s good at it.

As acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, last week Mary Anne Carter approved more than $80 million in grants, as part of the agency’s second major funding announcement of fiscal year 2019. And Bay Street Theater is among the recipients.