Books

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The Constant Gardener

By Nina Shengold

What do gardening, murder, women’s erotica, and Christmas past have in common? A most uncommon edito: Woodstocker Michele Slung.

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Book Review: Up is Up but So is Down

By Peter Aaron

Anyone who spent time in lower Manhattan during the years covered in editor Brandon Stosuy’s rich and riveting anthology, Up Is Up But So Is Down, will tell you the same thing: Their city is gone.

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Book Review: Home Remedies

By Caitlin McDonnell

“In relationships one person always cares more than the other,” a mother warns a daughter in Angela Pneuman’s enticing debut, Home Remedies.

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Book Review: The Neddiad

By Susan Krawitz

The Neddiad is an epic tale that mixes disparate genres and elements in a way only the author of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency could imagine.

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Short Takes

By Nina Shengold

Whether they’re writing about military realities, queer identity, land use issues up- and downriver, or that iconoclastic bride of Christ, these five local authors are helping to break new ground.

Book Excerpt: "The Pact"

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An excerpt from “The Pact” by Roberta Allen, from Up Is Up, But So Is Down.

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Graphic Violence

By Brian K. Mahoney

In Killed Cartoons, writer and editor David Wallis collects some of the great nixed editorial pieces of recent vintage.