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Hamptons Diary: Who Says Books Are Dead?
I call this entry: Reading Between the Lines
Whoever said books have gone the way of the dodo bird? Clearly, no one who spotted the standby line for tickets one memorable Thursday at Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night.
What caught readers’ eyes, if not their allegiance? An eclectic spread ranging from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Tender Is the Night to Stephen Greenblatt’s surprise hit The Swerve, with some die-hard devotees holding their spot from 3 a.m. until finally gaining entrance at 8 p.m.
Domesticity—in the guise of Bringing Up Bébé and The Marriage Portrait—proved once again a sizable draw, but Stephen King remained the hands-down winner. His novel on JFK’s assassination, 11/22/63, was riveting enough to make one reader forget—if only briefly—that this particular Thursday was another ignominious date: Sept. 11.
Photographer Sonia Moscowitz @soniafotog is an accomplished photographer and familiar presence at Hamptons events. She submitted these photos for Hamptons Diary taken in New York City, where she happened to connect with writer Jill Newman who wrote the copy to accompany the photographs.
