A Hole in the Ocean: A Hampton’s Apprenticeship

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Two Hamptons: the glossy-magazine one, and the artists’ one. In A Hole in the Ocean: A Hamptons’ Apprenticeship, poet and novelist Sandy McIntosh — longtime denizen of the East End — blends memoir and poetry into an intimate portrait of a place where creativity and eccentricity have always lived side by side. Part recollection, part reverie, the book drifts between fact and imagination. Part recollection, part reverie — drifting between fact and imagination with a poet’s ear.

With a poet’s ear and a storyteller’s mischief, McIntosh recalls the painters, writers, and larger-than-life characters who shaped the Hamptons’ artistic soul — capturing both the glamour and the grit of a community in constant reinvention. Funny, wistful, and quietly profound.

For lovers of literary memoir and Long Island’s cultural history: an apprenticeship tale in the truest sense — not only in art, but in the art of paying attention.

There are two Hamptons: the one in the glossy magazines and the one known to the artists, poets, and misfits who made it their home. In A Hole in the Ocean: A Hamptons’ Apprenticeship, Sandy McIntosh — poet, novelist, and longtime denizen of the East End — blends memoir and poetry into an intimate portrait of a place where creativity and eccentricity have always lived side by side.

Part recollection, part reverie, this genre-bending book drifts between fact and imagination as McIntosh recalls the great and near-great figures who crossed his path: the painters, writers, and larger-than-life characters who shaped the Hamptons’ artistic soul. With a poet’s ear and a storyteller’s mischief, he captures both the glamour and the grit of a community in constant reinvention.

Published by Marsh Hawk Press, A Hole in the Ocean is a book for anyone who loves literary memoir, the cultural history of Long Island’s East End, or simply a good story told well. Funny, wistful, and quietly profound, it is an apprenticeship tale in the truest sense — not only in art, but in the art of paying attention.