Books
How This Author Rescued an Ancient Recipe
August 13, 2019
Food scholar and Princeton native Katie Parla sought out the elders of an Italian city in order to reconstruct a once-celebrated soup. ...
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What We’re Reading This Summer
June 26, 2019
Whether you're at the pool or down the Shore, these books with New Jersey ties will make the perfect companion....
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The Montclair author's latest novel, Very Nice, is the perfect summer read. It's also deeply, darkly humorous....
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Camden Celebrates Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
May 20, 2019
The renowned poet updated his most famous collection, Leaves of Grass, while living in New Jersey....
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Marie Unanue's The Adventures of Phatty and Payaso: Central Park sends a positive message to young readers....
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Marie Kondo’s Army of Organization Experts
April 4, 2019
If you’re a neatnik, you might already be a fan of the KonMari method of household tidying. This trend, which… Read the rest
How a Kid from Hoboken Revolted Against Nazism
March 28, 2019
Peter Duffy's new book, "The Agitator," deems Bill Bailey’s 1935 uprising the first of its kind in America....
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“City of Champions” Honors Garfield Football Star Benny Babula
February 22, 2019
Benny Babula was the best football player in Garfield history. Writer Hank Gola's new book "City of Champions" details a 1939 game in which Babula led Garfield High School to victory....
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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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