BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1358@sparkhamptons.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T170000 DTSTAMP:20260923T165318Z URL:https://sparkhamptons.com/events/bedside-reading-brings-12-authors-to- the-hamptons-for-film-festival-season SUMMARY:Bedside Reading Brings 12 Authors to the Hamptons for Film Festival Season DESCRIPTION:The Hamptons International Film Festival celebrates great stori es on screen. This October\, Bedside Reading® is placing them off-screen too.\n\nAs filmmakers\, actors and film lovers arrive on the East End\, Be dside Reading is placing a curated collection of nine fall titles in 11 Ha mptons hotels. Four of those titles are also going straight into the hands of festival VIPs\, placed inside the official Hamptons International Film Festival gift bags on October 2.\n\n“Film festivals remind me of someth ing I’ve believed my entire career: everything starts with a great story \,” said Jane Ubell-Meyer\, founder and CEO of Bedside Reading® and a f ormer television and film producer. “Some stories are discovered on a sc reen. Some are discovered on a bedside table. And sometimes the book you p ick up when you least expect it becomes the one you can’t stop thinking about.”\n\nTHE FALL COLLECTION — 11 HOTELS\n\nThe Maidstone\, Journey East Hampton\, Mill House Inn\, Hotel Moraine\, The Baker House 1650\, Cap ri Southampton\, Southampton Inn\, 1708 House\, Canoe Place Inn &\; Cot tages\, Marram Montauk\, and Beachcomber Resort at Montauk.\n\nTWISTED LIV ES — Tamara Merrill. A mother’s search for her missing son unravels in to a psychological thriller about memory and deception.\n\nWHAT WE LEFT BE HIND — Valerie Nifora. A novel about the secrets families carry and the courage it takes to move forward.\n\nTHE BIG DAY — Lisa Cheek. A commitm ent skeptic says yes at 49\, then discovers the wedding didn’t legally c ount.\n\nWHAT NATURE TEACHES US — Clay and Amber Vilhauer. A mother and son find lessons in resilience through the natural world.\n\nA RIVER REMEM BERS — Lee Clark. A forensic entomologist returns home to find a murder\ , a hidden family and a killer watching her every move.\n\nTORTURED SOLES — Fran Weinstein. Twenty-two years as an entertainment TV producer\, tol d with candor and humor.\n\nHIS DAUGHTER — Caryn M. McGill. God’s daug hter is cast down to Earth and must choose between redemption and judgment .\n\nTHE EUREKA MACHINE — Richard Socher. An AI pioneer on how artificia l intelligence could compress a century of scientific discovery into a dec ade.\n\nLIBERATION FROM THE DIET PRISON — Regina Oswald. A path to body- mind harmony built on compassion\, not restriction.\n\nTHE FILM FESTIVAL F OUR\n\nFour screen-worthy bestsellers\, placed directly in the Hamptons In ternational Film Festival VIP Gift Bags on October 2:\n\n Where the Heart Meets the Sea by Kimbra Drake\n Blood in the Low Country by Paul Attaway \n A River Remembers by Lee Clark\n Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous by Christine Stringer\n\n“Discovery doesn’t always happen in a bookst ore\,” Ubell-Meyer added. “It can happen in a hotel room\, beside a po ol\, or inside a gift bag at a film festival. Our job is to create those m oments.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sparkhamptons.com/wp-content/uploads/202 6/09/Screenshot-2026-09-22-at-12.04.31-PM.jpg CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment LOCATION:Bedside Reading\, East Hampton\, East Hampton\, New York\, 11937\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=East Hampton\, East Hampton \, New York\, 11937\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bedside Rea ding:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR