Disco, A 'Roadbabe,' And More
Daniel Stern, a fiction writer who spends the summers at his house in Sag Harbor, will read at Canio's Books on Upper Main Street there on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Mr. Stern is the author of nine novels, a play, and numerous essays. His short stories have been selected for "O'Henry Prize Stories" and "Best American Short Stories," and his collection "Twice Told Tales" was given a special award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The former director of humanities at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, Mr. Stern is professor of creative writing at the University of Houston. He will read from his latest collection of short stories, "Twice Upon a Time."
Bosworth Memoir
At Book Hampton in East Hampton on Saturday at 5:30 p.m., Patricia Bosworth will read from her memoir, "Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story."
To all outward appearances, Bartley Crum - a prominent activist lawyer of the 1930s and '40s, Truman adviser, and defender of the Hollywood Ten - and his wife, Anna Gertrude Bosworth, a former crime reporter turned novelist, had it all. An elegant couple, well-connected socially and politically, they entertained lavishly, spent prodigiously, and doted on their two small children, one of whom was Ms. Bosworth.
Her father's suicide at the age of 59 led Ms. Bosworth to re-examine the myth and discover the reality behind it. She is the author of best-selling biographies of Montgomery Clift and Diane Arbus, was managing editor of Harper's Bazaar, is a contributing editor to Mirabella, and writes frequently for The New York Times and The Nation.
New York Nightlife
On Sunday, Anthony Haden-Guest, chronicler of the Manhattan nightclub scene for many decades, will read from his book "The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night" at 5:30 p.m.
"The Last Party" tells the inside story of the last 20 years of New York's nightlife, touching on the cult of celebrity, pre-AIDS sexual abandon, the emergence of gay culture, and the era's general air of flamboyant debauchery. The book features celebrities but also the bartenders, drug dealers, drag queens, and party girls and boys who were part of the scene.
The Open Road
Mr. Haden-Guest is a journalist whose work has appeared in New York, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and other publications. He has published three other books.
At Encore Books in Bridgehampton on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Eva Morris, author of "Bad Girls' Bedtime Stories," will read from her new book, "Why It Is More Important to Have a CB Radio Than a Basset Hound on a Roadtrip - From the Standpoint of a Female Four-Wheeler." The book is about a young woman's growing need for the freedom of the open road.
Ms. Morris will also read "An Ode to Rover" from a work in progress, "The Adventures of Roadbabe," about her cross-country tours with two dogs in her vintage Alfa Romeo.