The way we eat…and read when the lights go out
...the type of book that reveals the horrid truth behind the food industry...
View ArticleA million books & more for the Shore from Scholastic
Remember those monthly catalogs you got back in elementary school from Scholastic, the leading publishers of books, magazines and educational programs for students? We looked forward to every one and...
View ArticlePatti Smith’s Just Kids – with Asbury Park’s words!
ASBURY PARK, NJ - The Biggest Little Book Club in the world is right here in Asbury Park. It’s facilitated by words! Bookstore at 612 Cookman Avenue. And, even though they can only accommodate about...
View ArticleSaltwater Buddha author brings Fear Project to Asbury
ASBURY PARK, NJ — An epic adventure full of incredible characters, death-defying athletic achievement, and bleeding edge science, THE FEAR PROJECT began with one question: how can we overcome our...
View ArticleJenny Kidd: Ambiguity Is Good!
FAIR HAVEN, NJ – On Saturday, February 16, at 4:00 p.m., River Road Books will host a reading by local author Laury A. Egan, who will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Jenny Kidd. A...
View ArticleParade’s End & The Absolutist: WWI continued…
Asbury Park's Lane Jantzen sent us The Absolutist – and APHS's Frederick Malick left us all “A Record of the War Activities at Asbury Park, N.J.”
View ArticleThe High-Rise Voice: Eric Yves Garcia
UPDATE: Eric will be performing a one-man show of standards on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in NYC. Event info at THIS LINK. By STEVEN FROIAS Shore area listeners of the...
View ArticleThis Side of Asbury Park
"The country house did not come, but a month in an Asbury Park boarding-house each summer filled the gap."
View ArticleSelf-publishing workshop begins Tues, Jan. 14
BELMAR, NJ – Did you write a sizzling page-turner? An interesting how-to? A memoir to pass on to your children? As gut-wrenching as it may be to to actually sit down and write, that may actually be...
View ArticleTake Kerouac’s On The Road Trip
Right about now cabin fever might be reaching, well, fever pitch during this crappy winter (crappy being a certified meteorological term; we checked). This may or may not help, depending on weather...
View ArticleJohn Vigg’s Page Turner
John "Vigg" Viggiano - agent provocateur behind such movements in the city like The Gallery 13 and The Collective Art Tank - is Asbury Park's very own Gutenberg.
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