Books
Getting to Know Novelist Jonathan Miles
February 7, 2019
Novelist Jonathan Miles on writing in a shack, his friend Elizabeth Gilbert, and Hunterdon County’s solitude. His new novel is "Anatomy of a Miracle." ...
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Author Dani Shapiro Chronicles Her New Origin Story in New Book
January 11, 2019
In her latest memoir, the best-selling author unearths a hidden family secret after receiving the results of a DNA testing kit....
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A Daughter’s Love, Her Mother’s Words
December 18, 2018
A Teaneck resident fulfills her late mother's dream by publishing a book of her work, "H is for Haiku: A Treasury of Haiku from A to Z."...
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Dan Barry Takes Deep Dives into Unseen Lives
December 12, 2018
Gathered in a new book, Dan Barry’s New York Times columns create a compelling portrait of Americans at their best and dealing with the worst....
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When Numbers Don’t Compute
November 13, 2018
A professor of computer science at Princeton University, Brian Kernighan has written a new book that features math errors collected from other published works. ...
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Historian Finds Freedom in Art
October 18, 2018
Nell Irvin Painter, already a Harvard PhD., was 64 when she enrolled as an undergraduate at Rutgers’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she earned a BFA followed by a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design....
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A Conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
October 15, 2018
The Director of Creative Writing at Princeton University and Pulitzer Prize winner sat down with us to discuss how New Jersey has affected her work. ...
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The Garden State is Fertile Ground for Poetry
October 9, 2018
New Jersey is a hotbed of contemporary poets. Ever wonder why?...
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The Untold Story of The Real Lolita
September 6, 2018
In "The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World," author Sarah Weinman shines a light on the New Jersey girl who inspired the controversial novel. ...
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Summer reading isn't just for students. Whether you're at the pool or down the Shore, these books by New Jersey writers will make the perfect companion....
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Terence A. Harkin, the author of "The Big Buddha Bicycle Race" splits his time between the Jersey Shore and Chiang Mai, Thailand....
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Revisiting Einstein’s Brain, Six Decades Later
May 16, 2018
What went on between the ears of the legendary Princeton genius? More than 60 years after his death, we’re still pondering that mystery....
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When Cape May Had a Navy
April 24, 2018
A new book documents the Revolutionary exploits of Cape May privateers against British ships....
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Jenny Xie’s Work is Poetry on the Eye Level
April 17, 2018
In Eye Level, Middlesex County poet Jenny Xie's first book of poetry, questions the bonds of seeing and perspective and confronts issues of travel and observing others as an outsider. ...
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Worthy Wordsmiths
March 12, 2018
March 15-18 Authors, including Tom Perrotta, Christina Baker Kline, Meg Wolitzer, Dara Horn and 2017 National Book Award finalist Min… Read the rest
Laurie Wallmark is Defying STEM Stereotypes
February 14, 2018
Laurie Wallmark’s latest book, "Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code"—a Parents’ Choice Gold Medal awardee—follows the life of a trailblazing software tester and inventor who taught computers how to speak English....
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Writer Morgan Jerkins Weaves the Personal With the Political
January 29, 2018
Author and South Jersey native Morgan Jerkins examines pop culture, misogyny, black history and racism in her book "This Will Be My Undoing."...
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Writer Hopes Mob Book is a Hit
December 18, 2017
Scott Deitche's book "Garden State Gangland: The Rise of The Mob in New Jersey" details the state's sordid history of mafioso....
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Growing Up Jersey: Writers
December 6, 2017
Judy Blume, Junot Diaz, Akhil Sharma and more tell tales about how New Jersey shaped them as writers, and as people. ...
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Poet Patrick Rosal Paves His Own Path to Success
December 5, 2017
Patrick Rosal, an Edison native, recently won the 2017 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his latest book, "Brooklyn Antediluvian."...
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