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Welcome to East End Books
East End Books specializes
in illustrated books on all subjects. We have magnificent giftbooks
on architecture and art, as well as the finest children’s books.
We have gift and practical books on cooking, decorative arts, fashion
and gardening, and lavishly illustrated books on interiors, performing
arts, photography, sports and travel. We also have a choice selection
of the best in literature and non-fiction in both paperback and hardcover,
as well as an extensive selection of local interest books.
We have a fine art gallery which features work in all mediums by both local and
internationally known artists and photographers. In many instances the exhibitions
include work from a recently published book by the artist. Frequent
in-store author readings are held, as well.
Finally we have a selection of music cd’s featuring Brazilian, French and Italian;
cabaret; jazz and classical recordings.
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Saturday, May 24th from 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Betty Buckley
Meet Betty Buckley the legendary star of stage and screen who will autograph copies of her new cd Quintessence and the reissue of her first recording Betty Buckley 1967.
 Betty Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS. She received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in TRIUMPH OF LOVE, and an Olivier Award nomination for her interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s SUNSET BOULEVARD, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
 Her other Broadway credits include 1776, PIPPIN, SONG AND DANCE, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and CARRIE. Off-Broadway credits include Lincoln Center’s ELEGIES, the original NYSF production of EDWIN DROOD, THE EROS TRILOGY and JUNO SWANS. Regional credits include GYPSY, THREEPENNY OPERA, CAMINO REAL and BUFFALO GAL. She starred in the London production of PROMISES, PROMISES.
 Her film appearances include her debut in Brian de Palma’s screen version of Stephen King’s CARRIE, Bruce Beresford’s TENDER MERCIES, Roman Polanski’s FRANTIC, Woody Allen’s ANOTHER WOMAN and Lawrence Kasden’s WYATT EARP. She recently completed THE HAPPENING for M. Night Shyamalan to be released June, 2008.
Most recently, Buckley appeared on the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors. She has also starred in the HBO series OZ and as Abby Bradford in the hit series EIGHT IS ENOUGH. She has appeared in the CBS series WITHOUT A TRACE, the NBC series LAW & ORDER: SVU, the FOX series THE JURY and MONK for the USA network. She has received two Emmy Nominations.
Buckley has completed 11 CD’s, among them QUINTESSENCE and BETTY BUCKLEY 1967 and the Grammy Nominated STARS AND THE MOON, BETTY BUCKLEY LIVE AT THE DONMAR.
 For over thirty-five years Ms. Buckley has been a teacher of scene study and song interpretation, giving workshops in Manhattan and various universities and performing arts conservatories around the country. She has been a faculty member in the theatre department of the University of Texas at Arlington, the Terry Schreiber Acting School in New York City and currently at the Casa Manana Theatre in Fort Worth, TX.
In March of 2007, Ms. Buckley was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in Austin.
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Saturday, May 31st from 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Lora Drasner
Meet photographer and author Lora Drasner at a reception and book signing for her new book Sunsets.
 Take a visual tour of the world’s most exotic beaches and cityscapes at sunset, following the travels of gifted photographer Lora Drasner from her three-year circumnavigation of the globe-no passport required! With their spectrum of vibrant hues, sunsets are an inspiration in any setting, and more so when highlighting such magical places as the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Australia, the United States, and more. Accompanying the more than 80 breathtaking photographs are timeless quotes from renowned scholars and thinkers. These small pearls of wisdom motivate and enlighten to guide you through the beautiful world of sunsets and along your own exciting journey.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
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Saturday, June 7th, 6:00 p.m.
Eric Fischl
Meet internationally acclaimed artist Eric Fischl who will sign copies of his new monograph Eric Fischl 1970–2007.
NO
AMERICAN
PAINTER HAS
SO INTELLIGENTLY
MANUFACTURED
A
VISUAL WORLD
OF
SUCH
PROMISING
BEWILDERMENT
—Eric Fischl 1970-2007
Arthur C. Danto, Robert Enright, Steve Martin
 Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America’s most important figurative painters.
His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to
participate in a world of middle-class surburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl’s engaging
and distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are
preeminent.
This volume, an expanded edition of Eric Fischl 1970–2000, is the most comprehensive
examination of this important contemporary painter. More than 250 works, selected in
conjunction with the artist, present the full scope of Fischl’s career: the formative work of
the 1970s; the breakthrough paintings of the 1980s, including the controversial Sleepwalker and Bad Boy; and the mature work, often of a personal and contemplative
nature, of the 1990s and 2000s. In his most recent paintings Fischl has turned to
multipiece cycles: The Bed, The Chair series, starting with The Philosopher’s Chair;
canvases inspired by trips to Italy and India; and the paintings–Fischl terms them “narrative fictions”–of the “Krefeld Project.” These engrossing images have been
accomplished with a mastery that has been compared to that of Caravaggio.
The introduction, by philosopher and critic Arthur C. Danto, offers a perceptive study of
Fischl’s work over the course of four decades. Commentary drawn from interviews with
the artist, conducted by noted writer Robert Enright, accompanies the paintings. Finally,
a witty and personal afterward by Steve Martin, best known as a gifted comic actor and
author, but also an astute collector of modern art, discusses Barbeque, a famed Fischl
painting from his private collection.
Arthur C. Danto is the Johnsonian
Professor of Philiosophy Emeritus at
Columbia University and art critic for The
Nation. He is the author of more than fifteen books.
Robert Enright is the senior contributing
editor to Border Crossings magazine and
the University Research Chair in Art
Criticism and the University of Guelph.
Steve Martin is the famed American
actor and writer. He is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker.
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Friday, June 13th, from 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Wendy Goodman and Hutton Wilkinson
Reception and signing authors Wendy Goodman and Hutton Wilkinson for his their book on famed designer Tony Duquette.
 American artist and design legend Tony Duquette (1914–1999) was known for his over-the-top style in interiors, jewelry, costumes, and set design. His clients included Elizabeth Arden, the Duchess of Windsor, and Herb Albert.
The multi-talented Duquette designed sets for MGM musicals with Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnelli, and designed Tony Award–winning costumes for the original Broadway production of Camelot. Duquette was the first American to exhibit a one-man show at the Louvre in Paris.
Tony Duquette is a lavishly illustrated book with many lost and never-before published photographs from the Duquette archives, including portraits and pictures taken by Man Ray, John Engstead, Fredrich Dapriche, Andre Ostier, George Platt Lynnes, as well as original sketches, designs, and texts by Duquette himself. With commentary, interviews, stories, and contributions from Liza Minnelli, Arlene Dahl, Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, and others.
About the authors
Wendy Goodman is the Interior Design Editor of New York magazine, the Contributing Style Editor of Departures magazine, and a Contributing Editor at Elle Décor. She lives in New York City.
Jewelry and interior designer Hutton Wilkinson is President of Tony Duquette, Inc. Wilkinson began working for Duquette while still a teenager. He is also president of the Elsie DeWolfe Foundation.
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Sautrday, June 14th from 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Paul Sahre
 Meet author Paul Sahre who talk about his new book Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone.
Who doesn't dream of owning a second home at the beach? Well, in the early 1960s, it was a snap even for the working class. For as little as $590 down and $73 a month, you could walk into Macy’s and leave with a fully furnished house. All you needed to move in was a key and some groceries. Each house came complete with furniture, appliances, a 45-piece Melmac dinner service, plastic glasses, and fifty pieces of stainless-steel flatware, plus towels, napkins, placemats, beds, pillows and sheets, even toothbrushes. The homes also promised low maintenance with redwood siding and interior paneling that never needed painting and had lifetime guarantees. In Leisurama, author Paul Sahre uncovers the mystery of this legendary slice of architectural Americana and lovingly documents its forty-year history with a treasure trove of text, photographs, historical documentation, and oral histories.
Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built at Culloden Shores in Montauk, Long Island. Most of the homes have since been converted to year-round occupancy, and with very few exceptions, all have been enlarged and redecorated, while the once barren shore is now forested. In a sweet paradox, these once very affordable homes that were looked down upon by more well-to-do neighbors are now desirable and expensive, even “collectable.” Their rich legacy lives on in the affordable pages of Leisurama.
About the author
Graphic designer, illustrator, educator, lecturer, foosballer and author Paul Sahre established his own design company in New York, in 1997. Consciously maintaining a small office, he has nevertheless established a large presence in American graphic design. Sahre is also a frequent contributor the the New York Times op-ed page. He is the co-author of Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio, a book based on a collection of QSL cards, which amateur radio enthusiasts exchange after communication with other operators around the world. Paul received his BFA and MFA in graphic design from Kent State and teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts. He is a member of Alliance Graphic International.
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Saturday, June 21st from 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Ron Galella
Opening artist’s reception and book signing for famed celebrity photographer Ron Galella for his new book of photographs Warhol by Galella: That's Great! Photographs by Ron Galella
Introduction by Glenn O’Brien
Photos from the book will be on display in the gallery through July 3rd.
 Paparazzo-Italian for pesky-is synonymous with Ron Galella, the photographer who made his name capturing celebrities in unguarded, often private moments. Famously banned from approaching Jackie Onassis and punched by Marlon Brando, Galella was a favorite of Andy Warhol, who shared his fascination with the great and near-great. Warhol himself recorded his nightly rounds through a seemingly endless parade of parties, openings, and happenings in his diaries. In these photographs, captured in Warhol by Galella, Galella presents the definitive visual diary of Warhol's life and times, his entourage, and his haunts.
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Saturday, June 28th from 6:30–7:30 p.m.
John Gruen
Meet John Gruen for his memoir Callas Kissed Me, Lenny Too!, A Critic’s Memoir
 From his extraordinary beginnings—his mother went into labor while gambling at a French casino—to escaping Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and ultimately hoping to conquer New York City, John Gruen writes a subtly revealing self-portrait in Callas Kissed Me…Lenny Too!
As a boy unable to speak a single word of English, Gruen was determined to make a successful life for himself in America. Anxious to know what his adopted country was truly about, he ventured to the Midwest to attend the University of Iowa, where he emerged, five years later, as a more-or-less Americanized graduate student on his way to a PhD scholarship to the prestigious Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and as the 20-year-old husband of ravishing fellow student and painter Jane Wilson. The story of the Gruens’ life in New York City, from the 1950s to the present, explores a complex marriage and two parallel journeys of artistic growth. Gruen worked as a composer, photographer, and journalist; Wilson developed as a distinguished painter, though often supported the two with work as a fashion model.
Life was always on the move for the couple. Though hardly wellconnected and certainly not wealthy, the Gruens knew everyone during their many years in the artistic milieu of which they were an active part. From the many apartments they occupied in New York City to the countless dinner parties, nights at the Cedar bar, and weekends at their Hamptons barn, their life was a nonstop social whirlwind. There were chance encounters with Salvador Dalí, evenings spent pretending to be Chekhov characters at home with E.E. Cummings and Marion Morehouse, working vacations to Italy with the Leonard Bernsteins, and a long working visit to Gian Carlo Menotti’s baronial Scottish estate. Their ever-expanding circle of acquaintances and friends also included Rudolf Nureyev, Maria Callas, Willem De Kooning, Francis Bacon, Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Bette Davis, Samuel Beckett, Lucien Freud, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and so many others. It was all quite head-spinning, at times producing hugely complicated situations, but throughout it all, John Gruen and Jane Wilson built successful careers based on hard work and a steady conviction that life should be lived to the fullest.
John Gruen has written for The New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times. He was the chief art critic for New York magazine, an arts columnist for Vogue, contributing editor to ArtNews, writer for Architectural Digest, and senior editor at Dance Magazine. He has previously written 15 books, including biographies on conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, composer Gian Carlo Menotti, dancer Erik Bruhn, and artist Keith Haring. He is also a published photographer who has exhibited widely and authored two photography books, Facing the Artist (Prestel, 1999) and The Sixties: Young in the Hamptons (Charta, 2006). Three hundred of his artist portraits are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Gruen and wife Jane Wilson live in New York City and Water Mill, NY. Their daughter, Julia Gruen, is the Executive Director of the Keith Haring Foundation.
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Saturday, July 5th from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Rosalie Winard
The photographer’s reception and book signing is from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
The show continues through July 17th.
Wild Birds of the American Wetlands
foreword by Temple Grandin
introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
photographs by Rosalie Winard
 For over a decade, photographer Rosalie Winard has traveled the country by foot, canoe, airboat, and ATV, taking pictures of large birds of the wetlands from Florida to California, Louisiana to North Dakota. Her intimate portraits—tethered to an ethereal palette of white, gray, and black—are alight with Winard’s passion for the avian world and its endangered terrain. Alternately meditative and exhilarating, abstract and literal, they capture the birds’ remarkable habits and prehistoric forms, as well as their ineffable elegance and humor.
Wild Birds of the American Wetlands is a monumental and breathtaking study of some of the country’s most beautiful birds—Great Blue Heron, White Ibis, Snowy Egret, Whooping Crane, Roseate Spoonbill, American White Pelican, Wood Stork, and many more—and of their vanishing habitats. From the Ballona Wetlands in California to the prairies of Nebraska, Winard uses her thirty years of experience observing these winged creatures along with her mastery of photography to illuminate the importance of avian and wetland conservation.
 Winard’s camera lens has replaced her binoculars as she searches for images that depict the birds’ elusive aspects and paradoxes: their simultaneous fragility and power, tranquility and action, stillness and momentum. At once a documentary photographer, artist, and student of natural history, Winard, in each of her photographs, slips soundlessly into a vivid and detailed realism.
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Saturday, July 19th from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Paul Saltzman
Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Show continues through August 14th
 Meet
photographer Paul Saltzman who will be on hand
to sign copies of his limited edition book and attend the opening
reception for an exhibit of photographs from the book The Beatles
in India.
In February, 1968, Paul Saltzman traveled to the Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh, India to learn
meditation. His time there was profoundly life changing. While
there, he met John, Paul, George and Ringo, and over the following
days, as they hung out together, he took some photographs. Paul’s
time with the Beatles had been intimate and private moments for
him. Although each of the Beatles had given him explicit permission
to take their pictures, when he returned home he put his Ektachrome
transparencies away in a cardboard box in his basement, and forgot
about them. Thirty years later, his daughter reminded him of the
photographs. These never before seen photographs are available
in a stunning limited edition book.
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Saturday, August 23th from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Jake Rajs
Artist’s reception Saturday, August 16, 2008 from 6:00–7:30
p.m.
Show continues through August 28th.
 Meet
photographer Jake Rajs who will be on hand to sign copies
of his new book and to attend the opening reception of photographs from his
new book Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons.
With and introduction by Paul Goldberg, Jake's incredible
color photographs are a brilliant testimony to all that we love about this
special place.
Though he had toyed with other media, such as painting and sculpture,
and even identified himself as a poet for a while, there was another
form of creative expression out there for Jake Rajs. “I saw
a book of poems and photographs, and thought ‘what a great
idea.’
So I got myself a camera. The poetry wasn't as good as the photography.
I found I could say it better without words. Artists use a different
vehicle to express themselves. For me, it's the camera.”
Once he found his tool, he then worked on building his experience.
After graduating from Rutgers with a B.A. in Studio Art, Jake began
by assisting other photographers in New York City (By washing floors
and toilets) and then by pounding on pavement and doors. “I
got my first assignment, and then another, then people just started
buying my work.”
Since those humble beginnings, Jake has published thirteen books,
from one focusing on New York City that came out in 1985 to These
United States, an enormous limited edition coffee table book with
an introduction by Walter Cronkite. In fact, it
was in part because of that collection, published by Rizzoli in
2003, that Jake was selected as “Best Observer” in Reader's
Digest special issue featuring America’s 100 Best.
Rajs was born in Poland and moved to Israel before coming to Brooklyn
at age eight. ”My father came first, while we were in Israel,
maybe it’s my childhood memory talking, but we came on a ship.
It took two weeks, and then we arrived in New York harbor. We were
all on deck, it was nighttime, and we see the Statue of Liberty and
everyone’s crying, I’m crying. Then, early in the morning,
we were watching the sun hit the skyline, and everything turns golden.
People came for their dreams.”
Over the years, Jake has focused on New York City and the United
States, clocking by his own estimation a million miles criss-crossing
the nation. ”You should focus on something you know and you
care about. It is my sincerest hope that my images go beyond mere
representation to communicate emotionally and spiritually.”
For his part, Rajs feels his work serves a greater purpose. My motivation
is to help humanity, by showing beauty or giving another perspective
on whatever subject I’ve chosen. I get to express myself and
have fun along the way.
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May 3rd through May 22nd
Dick Stone
Opening reception for artist, Saturday May
3rd from 5:30–7:00 p.m.
Show continues through May 22nd.
 Dick
Stone studied for four years at the Art Students
League in New York with Raphael Soyer, Moses
Soyer, George Bridgman and Chaim
Gross. When he started he was the youngest student
the League had ever accepted. He then went on to Yale University
School of Fine Art where he studied with Josef Albers and
received a BFA.
Dick established a career in New York as a top illustrator. His work appeared
on the covers of magazines like Redbook, Reader's Digest, Ladies
Home Journal, Sports Illustrated, Woman’s
Day and The
Saturday Evening Post among many others. He turned to
photography for many years. His photographs appeared in major
advertisements—one
of his posters is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
This led to a longtime career in filmmaking as a Director during
which he received several Clio Awards.
In 1989 he moved to the East End where he has established himself
as an important abstract artist. He has exhibited previously with The
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, The Elaine Benson, The
Noyes Museum and The
Sidney Mishkin Gallery.
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May 24th through June 19th
 Anne Raymond
Opening reception for artist,
Saturday May 24th from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Meet artist Anne Raymond at the opening
reception for her new show Works on Paper.
Show continues through June 19th
 Anne Raymond was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Dallas.
She moved to New York City in 1988, and currently lives and works
in East Hampton, NY, as well as in NYC. After receiving a BFA from
the University of Texas at Austin, she attended the School of Visual
Arts in New York.
Anne's work is in the permanent collections of major museums including
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and The
Blanton Museum of Art, University
of Texas at Austin. Ms. Raymond has shown extensively in one-person
and group shows in the United States and abroad. Noteworthy galleries
in New York; Chicago; Phoenix; Dallas; Santa Monica; Portland, Oregon;
Sarasota, Florida; Madison, Wisconsin and Eastern Long Island have
exhibited her work.
 Ms. Raymond's work is found in the collections of many leading firms,
including EOS Airlines; Pfizer; United
Airlines; Skadden, Arps, Slate
Meagher & Flom; Colgate-Palmolive
Company; Nuveen Securities;
Saks Fifth Avenue; United
Parcel Service; Goldman, Sachs & Co.;
and Bellagio Hotel and Resort.
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June 21st through July 3rd
Ron Galella
June 21 from 6:00–8:00 p.m. Opening artist’s reception and book signing for famed celebrity photographer Ron Galella for his new book of photographs Warhol by Galella: That's Great! Photographs by Ron Galella.
Introduction by Glenn O’Brien.
The show continues through July 3rd.
Paparazzo-Italian for pesky-is synonymous with Ron Galella, the photographer who made his name capturing celebrities in unguarded, often private moments. Famously banned from approaching Jackie Onassis and punched by Marlon Brando, Galella was a favorite of Andy Warhol, who shared his fascination with the great and near-great. Warhol himself recorded his nightly rounds through a seemingly endless parade of parties, openings, and happenings in his diaries. In these photographs, captured in Warhol by Galella, Galella presents the definitive visual diary of Warhol's life and times, his entourage, and his haunts.
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July 5th through July 17th
Rosalie Winard
The photographer’s reception and book signing is July 5 from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
The show continues through July 17th.
Wild Birds of the American Wetlands
foreword by Temple Grandin
introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
photographs by Rosalie Winard
For over a decade, photographer Rosalie Winard has traveled the country by foot, canoe, airboat, and ATV, taking pictures of large birds of the wetlands from Florida to California, Louisiana to North Dakota. Her intimate portraits—tethered to an ethereal palette of white, gray, and black—are alight with Winard’s passion for the avian world and its endangered terrain. Alternately meditative and exhilarating, abstract and literal, they capture the birds’ remarkable habits and prehistoric forms, as well as their ineffable elegance and humor.
Wild Birds of the American Wetlands is a monumental and breathtaking study of some of the country’s most beautiful birds—Great Blue Heron, White Ibis, Snowy Egret, Whooping Crane, Roseate Spoonbill, American White Pelican, Wood Stork, and many more—and of their vanishing habitats. From the Ballona Wetlands in California to the prairies of Nebraska, Winard uses her thirty years of experience observing these winged creatures along with her mastery of photography to illuminate the importance of avian and wetland conservation.
Winard’s camera lens has replaced her binoculars as she searches for images that depict the birds’ elusive aspects and paradoxes: their simultaneous fragility and power, tranquility and action, stillness and momentum. At once a documentary photographer, artist, and student of natural history, Winard, in each of her photographs, slips soundlessly into a vivid and detailed realism.
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July 19th through August 14th
Paul Saltzman
Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Show continues
through August 14th
Meet photographer Paul Saltzman who will be on hand to sign copies
of his limited edition book and attend the opening reception for an
exhibit of photographs from the book The Beatles
in India.
In February, 1968, Paul Saltzman traveled to the Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh, India to learn
meditation. His time there was profoundly life changing. While
there, he met John, Paul, George and Ringo, and over the following
days, as they hung out together, he took some photographs. Paul’s
time with the Beatles had been intimate and private moments for
him. Although each of the Beatles had given him explicit permission
to take their pictures, when he returned home he put his Ektachrome
transparencies away in a cardboard box in his basement, and forgot
about them. Thirty years later, his daughter reminded him of the
photographs. These never before seen photographs are available
in a stunning limited edition book.
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August 16th through August 28th
Jake Rajs
Photographer’s reception August 23rd from 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Show continues through August 28th.
Meet
photographer Jake Rajs who will be on hand
to sign copies of his new book and to attend the opening reception
of photographs from his new book Beyond the Dunes: A
Portrait of the Hamptons. With and introduction
by Paul Goldberg,
Jake's incredible color photographs are a brilliant testimony to
all that we love about this special place.
Though he had toyed with other media, such as painting and sculpture,
and even identified himself as a poet for a while, there was another
form of creative expression out there for Jake Rajs. “I saw
a book of poems and photographs, and thought ‘what a great idea.’
So I got myself a camera. The poetry wasn't as good as the photography.
I found I could say it better without words. Artists use a different
vehicle to express themselves. For me, it's the camera.”
Once he found his tool, he then worked on building his experience.
After graduating from Rutgers with a B.A. in Studio Art, Jake began
by assisting other photographers in New York City (By washing floors
and toilets) and then by pounding on pavement and doors. “I
got my first assignment, and then another, then people just started
buying my work.”
Since those humble beginnings, Jake has published thirteen books,
from one focusing on New York City that came out in 1985 to These
United States, an enormous limited edition coffee table book with
an introduction by Walter Cronkite. In fact, it
was in part because of that collection, published by Rizzoli in
2003, that Jake was selected as “Best Observer” in Reader's
Digest special issue featuring America’s
100 Best.
Rajs was born in Poland and moved to Israel before coming to Brooklyn
at age eight. ”My father came first, while we were in Israel,
maybe it’s my childhood memory talking, but we came on a ship. It
took two weeks, and then we arrived in New York harbor. We were all
on deck, it was nighttime, and we see the Statue of Liberty and everyone’s
crying, I’m crying. Then, early in the morning, we were watching
the sun hit the skyline, and everything turns golden. People came
for their dreams.”
Over the years, Jake has focused on New York City and the United
States, clocking by his own estimation a million miles criss-crossing
the nation. ”You should focus on something you know and you
care about. It is my sincerest hope that my images go beyond mere
representation to communicate emotionally and spiritually.”
For his part, Rajs feels his work serves a greater purpose. My motivation
is to help humanity, by showing beauty or giving another perspective
on whatever subject I’ve chosen. I get to express myself and have
fun along the way.
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ALISON @ THE MAIDSTONE ARMS INN AND TAVERN
& EAST END BOOKS PRESENT
The Authors Round Table Dinner Series
NOTE NEW LOCATION: 207 Main Street, East Hampton, 631-324-5440
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The Authors Round Table Dinner Series
Friday, May 30th, 7:00 p.m. Reservations Suggested.
Dan Rattiner
 Meet Dan Rattiner, Editor and Publisher of Dan's Papers for his new book In the Hamptons: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires and Celebrities, With a Foreword by Edward Albee.
PRAISE FOR IN THE HAMPTONS:
“Rattiner knows his territory and shares a collection of charming early memories of the people among whom he lived and worked…As the Hamptons change from sleepy beaches to celebrity enclaves, the likable Rattiner boasts (modestly) about refusing an interview with then nobody Richard Nixon and playing baseball with notables such as George Plimpton and Bill Clinton.” —Publishers Weekly
“An intrepid guide to native life in the fabled Long Island utopia offers a memoir of a half century spent tracking its inhabitants as proprieter of the Hamptons’s newspaper of record…Redolent of saltwater and printers’ ink—perfectly suited for comfortable days at the beach.” —Kirkus
When Dan Rattiner moved to the east end of Lond Island in the 1950s, it was a sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms. As the founder and publisher of Dan’s Papers, Rattiner has had a unique vantage point on the incredible changes wrought over those fifty years, with the advent of McMansions and white parties, paparazzi and glitterati.
IN THE HAMPTONS: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities is an intimate portrait of a place and the people who formed and transformed it, from former residents like John Steinbeck and Willem de Kooning, colorful locals like Bobby Van and Nonie Self, and literary luminarties like George Plimpton and Truman Capote, to present-day stars like Donald Trump, Bianca Jagger, and Billy Joel. With dry wit and warm sensibility, Rattiner shares a story of the Hamptons few know.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAN RATTINER is an award-winning writer and the publisher of Dan’s Papers, the free newspaper he started in the Hamptons in the 1960s when he was twenty years old. He lives on Long Island, New York.
$39.00 per person includes three course meal and author discussion.
Tax, tip and drinks not included. Books available for purchase and signature by the author.
All dinners start at 7:00 p.m. Reservations Suggested. Call
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ALISON RESTAURANT
207 MAIN STREET • EAST HAMPTON • NEW YORK
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The Authors Round Table Dinner Series
Sunday, June 15th, 7:00 p.m. Reservations Suggested.
John Gruen
Meet John Gruen for his memoir Callas Kissed Me, Lenny Too!, A Critic’s Memoir
From his extraordinary beginnings—his mother went into labor while gambling at a French casino—to escaping Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and ultimately hoping to conquer New York City, John Gruen writes a subtly revealing self-portrait in Callas Kissed Me…Lenny Too!
As a boy unable to speak a single word of English, Gruen was determined to make a successful life for himself in America. Anxious to know what his adopted country was truly about, he ventured to the Midwest to attend the University of Iowa, where he emerged, five years later, as a more-or-less Americanized graduate student on his way to a PhD scholarship to the prestigious Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and as the 20-year-old husband of ravishing fellow student and painter Jane Wilson. The story of the Gruens’ life in New York City, from the 1950s to the present, explores a complex marriage and two parallel journeys of artistic growth. Gruen worked as a composer, photographer, and journalist; Wilson developed as a distinguished painter, though often supported the two with work as a fashion model.
Life was always on the move for the couple. Though hardly wellconnected and certainly not wealthy, the Gruens knew everyone during their many years in the artistic milieu of which they were an active part. From the many apartments they occupied in New York City to the countless dinner parties, nights at the Cedar bar, and weekends at their Hamptons barn, their life was a nonstop social whirlwind. There were chance encounters with Salvador Dalí, evenings spent pretending to be Chekhov characters at home with E.E. Cummings and Marion Morehouse, working vacations to Italy with the Leonard Bernsteins, and a long working visit to Gian Carlo Menotti’s baronial Scottish estate. Their ever-expanding circle of acquaintances and friends also included Rudolf Nureyev, Maria Callas, Willem De Kooning, Francis Bacon, Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Bette Davis, Samuel Beckett, Lucien Freud, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and so many others. It was all quite head-spinning, at times producing hugely complicated situations, but throughout it all, John Gruen and Jane Wilson built successful careers based on hard work and a steady conviction that life should be lived to the fullest.
John Gruen has written for The New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times. He was the chief art critic for New York magazine, an arts columnist for Vogue, contributing editor to ArtNews, writer for Architectural Digest, and senior editor at Dance Magazine. He has previously written 15 books, including biographies on conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, composer Gian Carlo Menotti, dancer Erik Bruhn, and artist Keith Haring. He is also a published photographer who has exhibited widely and authored two photography books, Facing the Artist (Prestel, 1999) and The Sixties: Young in the Hamptons (Charta, 2006). Three hundred of his artist portraits are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Gruen and wife Jane Wilson live in New York City and Water Mill, NY. Their daughter, Julia Gruen, is the Executive Director of the Keith Haring Foundation.
$39.00 per person includes three course meal and author discussion.
Tax, tip and drinks not included. Books available for purchase and signature by the author.
All dinners start at 7:00 p.m. Reservations Suggested. Call
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ALISON RESTAURANT
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The Authors Round Table Dinner Series
Friday, June 20th, 7:00 p.m. Reservations Suggested.
Ellen Sussman and TJ Parsell
Meet Ellen Sussman and TJ Parsell. Her new book is Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex with entries written by contemporary writers. TJ is one of the writers included and lives in Sag Harbor.
 A playful take on bedroom talk—a smart, funny encyclopedia with entries written by notable contemporary writers.
This witty reference steps in where time-honored discussions of the birds and the bees typically fall short. Each of the 100-some entries are formally defined and further explained through reflective and ribald definitions, essays, and stories by some of today’s most exciting writers. Everything from celibacy to promiscuity, hand jobs to sex toys is tackled by everyone’s favorite writers including Steve Almond, Patty Mary, Phillip Lopate, and Antonya Nelson. From sexual relationships (monogamy, one-night stand, ménage a trois) to sexual positions (doggie style, 69), from age-old practices (prostitution) to contemporary twists (cybersex), this alphabetical encyclopedia includes everything you need to know about the language of love and more.
$39.00 per person includes three course meal and author discussion.
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The Authors Round Table Dinner Series
Friday, June 27th, 7:00 p.m. Reservations Suggested.
James Brady
Meet East Hampton author James Brady who will talk about his new book Why Marines Fight.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Scariest Place in the World and The Coldest War
“Brady…sketches vivid thumbnails of his interlocutors and sets the right leatherneck vibe-sympathetic, irreverent, comradely-to draw them out. …an unusually personal and revealing collage of the nation in arms”
—Publishers Weekly
“These inspirational tales cover as many Marine experiences as Brady can pack in.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“For anyone who wants to know how the U.S. Marine team works in war and peace, this book is indispensable.”
—Booklist (starred review)
 James Brady is considered the unofficial poet laureate of the U.S. Marine Corps. A decorated combat veteran himself, Brady knows firsthand what goes through a young Marine’s mind as they first step onto the battlefield. As the New York Times said of his bestselling memoir, The Coldest War, “Brady knows war, the sound and feel of it.”
In WHY MARINES FIGHT, Brady asks combat-seasoned Marines to explain, in their own unscripted words, what drives all Marines to battle, and to return to battle even after being wounded. Put simply, he asks “Why do we fight? And just why fight so well?”
With no editorial or research assistance, Brady contacted Marines across the country—men he knows personally, as well as those who contacted him after an article about his work on the book ran in Leatherneck, the monthly magazine of the Marines. “Some questions I choked on, found difficult to ask,” Brady says. But “almost no one told me such questions were none of my damned business.”
The voices collected here come from a broad spectrum of men and women, many of them anonymous grunts, others celebrated heroes, a few household names. They include Senator James Webb and his Lance Corporal son, Jim, who emailed Brady from his deployment in Iraq. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and the late Senator John Chafee are also heard from, as are people like Dennis Delaney, a Long Island detective with a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, and Marine Captain Lauren Edwards, who joined the Marine Corps in 2003 and found herself shipped off to Iraq during the first days of the ground war.
With clarity, elegance and sometimes brutal frankness, these soldiers share their doubts as well as exulting in their triumphant battle cries, offering a rare and unique look into the minds of our most admired warriors.
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JAMES BRADY commanded a rifle platoon during the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star for valor. He captured these experiences in his last work, The Marine, his New York Times bestselling novels Warning of War and The Marines of Autumn, and in his highly praised memoir The Coldest War. His weekly columns for Forbes.com and Parade magazines are considered must-reads by millions. He lives in Manhattan and in East Hampton, New York.
$39.00 per person includes three course meal and author discussion.
Tax, tip and drinks not included. Books available for purchase and signature by the author.
All dinners start at 7:00 p.m. Reservations Suggested. Call
to reserve 631-324-5440.
ALISON RESTAURANT
207 MAIN STREET • EAST HAMPTON • NEW YORK
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