Lost in New Jersey

I've spent the first half of March 2025, more or less, at the side of Virgil and Dante, beginning with the read of a fascinating autobio...

This is, ostensibly, a review of "The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O'Farrell. So let's start with that. This is a wonderfu...

It seems I only read 11 books in 2024, while a friend wrote and recently published his first. I should be ashamed of myself, but at least I ...

This is me with Ana Almanzar, founder of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Book Club. Ana recently left our foundation to become Deputy M...

Author Fred Rossi reads from "Jersey Stories" last weekend at Halo Roasters in Springfield. Last weekend I stumbled into a book si...

Ghosts playing chess in New York City   Poetry is a monetarily thankless pursuit. This past weekend in 1845 the New York Evening Mirror publ...

Well, this is embarrassing. Evidently, I took an eight-month lull from reading or listening to books this year... without even realizing it....

25 years ago this past week, Bruce Springsteen returned to Freehold, NJ , to play a concert in the gym where he attended parochial school at...

Do you have a suggestion for a book to read before Labor Day? I've only read seven books since the beginning of the pandemic lockdown. E...