Book Markers: 10.02.14

Secrets of Disney Animation

John Canemaker, who won a 2005 Oscar for his animated short “The Moon and the Son,” an imagined conversation with his father, will venture into “the Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic,” according to his new book’s subtitle, through one Herman Schultheis next Thursday at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton.

The book’s title, “The Lost Notebook,” refers to a document kept by Schultheis, who worked for the Walt Disney Studio in the 1930s. Discovered in a forgotten drawer in 1990, it has been called “a covert scrapbook of special effects wizardry, capturing in photographs and text the dazzling, behind-the-scenes ingenuity of early Disney films.” Mr. Canemaker’s book explores its revelations as well as the complicated life of Schultheis, who walked into a Guatemalan jungle and was never heard from again.

Mr. Canemaker, an animation historian and professor at New York University, where he helped found the animation program, lives part time in Bridgehampton. His presentation starts at 7 p.m. In the meantime, he can be caught on Turner Classic Movies on Monday at 8 p.m., when he will co-host a showing of 10 animated films by the cartoonist Winsor McCay of “Little Nemo” fame.

For the Lit of It

Concerned about the future of small-fry literary journals and the fate of the indie bookstore? Funky Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor is offering a chance for you to put a $25 admission fee where your lit-loving mouth is Saturday with a fund-raiser twice over and a doubling up of poets reading. Rosalind Brenner and Pamela Kallimanis will read from their work starting at 5 p.m., the beneficiaries being Canio’s itself, naturally, and the Tupelo Press of North Adams, Mass., a nonprofit publisher of literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Ms. Brenner, who lives in Springs, is going so far as to take part in the press’s 30/30 Project and write 30 poems in 30 days. More about the project is at tupelopress.com. And, finally, an email promises “refreshments and fun” Saturday.

The Return of Obser

It’s become a tradition, hasn’t it? Eileen Obser, your friendly neighborhood writing coach over the last couple of decades, is back at it at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, offering a class in the crafting of memoirs and personal essays. It starts Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and runs for five consecutive Tuesdays until Nov. 4. All levels of ability will be welcomed, and the cost is $65. Sign-up is by phone with the library.

The East Hamptoner, no stranger to these pages with her own memoir and “Guestwords” pieces, also is recently out with a book, “Only You,” chronicling her young adulthood in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the then-more-charming borough of Queens.