Books

“The Passage of Power”
Robert A. Caro
Knopf, $35

   The eighth annual Authors Night, a cocktail party and book signing to benefit the East Hampton Library, will take place on Saturday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The authors reception will be...

   The Feminist Press, which is based at the City University of New York, is staging two cocktail parties on the South Fork this summer to introduce some of its recently published...

“Vanished in the Dunes”
Allan Retzky
Oceanview Publishing, $25.95

August, I walk this shore in search of wholeness
among snapped razor clams and footless quahogs.
How easily my palm cradles a moon shell

coughed up on shore. I...

“All My Georgias”
    Living history will walk through the East Hampton Library’s heavy wooden door on Saturday when Redjeb Jordania of...

“Buried on Avenue B”
Peter de Jonge
Harper, $25.99

“Masscult and Midcult”
Dwight Macdonald
New York Review Books, $16.95

   Has a writer ever been more productive in death than Kurt Vonnegut? It’s a mini industry, from posthumous collections of his unpublished short fiction (“Look at the...