Author: Jaime Bedrin

The Povolo quintuplets of Totowa, NJ

Set of NJ Quintuplets Graduating From Montclair State This Year

May 9, 2024

The Totowa siblings will graduate from Montclair State University on Monday.

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group of young bikers with adult leader in bright yellow jacket waving

The School Bike-Bus Movement Is Gaining Traction in NJ

February 13, 2024

Groups of kids are cycling to school together with adult chaperones in Montclair and other Jersey towns.

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Professor and author Lauren Grodstein

NJ Author Lauren Grodstein’s Holocaust Novel Was Inspired by Her Trip to Warsaw

November 28, 2023

The idea for Grodstein's fifth novel, We Must Not Think of Ourselves, began when she visited the Jewish Historical Institute.

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Illustration of woman at beach reading "Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano

NJ Author Receives Oprah’s Stamp of Approval

May 25, 2023

Oprah Winfrey chose Ann Napolitano’s latest book, Hello Beautiful, as her 100th book club selection.

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A black-and-white photograph of the kosher grocery store in Jersey City that was the site of a shooting in 2019 that targeted Jewish people and law enforcement

Paul Auster’s New Book Probes Gun Violence—and a Shocking Murder in His Family’s Past

January 10, 2023

In Bloodbath Nation, the Newark native collaborated with his son-in-law, photographer Spencer Ostrander, to examine our country’s gun-violence crisis.

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