Dot’s Desk: Hallmark movies are making me fat
Dorothea Benton Frank laments the way corny holiday movies layer on the pounds: "If they’re drinking hot cocoa, so am I," she writes.
All Write Now: On finding the write one, or playing the field with writing...
It's ok to play the field to find Mr. or Ms. "Write."
Montclair Local First Person: Not easy being green in the big red chair at...
By ERIN ROLL
roll@montclairlocal.news
In “First Person” we report on events in, well, the first person. Reporters draw on their own experience at the event to describe it.
I had Mark Teague’s “Frog Medicine” in my lap,...
Dot’s Desk: on being dead right
Author Dorothea Benton Frank tells pedestrians that the solution to "not getting squashed like a bug underfoot is to employ a little common sense."
Transforming in the Chair: The Little Read turns 10
Something happens when adults climb in to the Big Red Chair for The Little Read. The Little Read turns 10 this year, and takes place Oct. 16-20.
Culture in brief: The Little Read celebrates 10 years
The Montclair Public Library will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Little Read in October in a five-day celebration.
Trespassing through the memories of madness at Overbrook Asylum
Wheeler Antabanez of Montclair's "Words of Overbrook" is a book of free-verse inspired by the demolition of the Essex County Mental Hospital in Cedar Grove and the complex of tunnels connecting the asylum’s many structures.
Steph Auteri is writing life, and writing sex
In “A Dirty Word: How a Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality,” Montclair writer Steph Auteri writes about using her job as a sex writer as a type of therapy.
Culture in brief: Chelsea Clinton comes to Montclair
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m., Chelsea Clinton will sign copies of her book “Start Now! You Can Make a Difference,” at Watchung Booksellers.
Litfest: Montclair teens perform at poetry slam
Montclair students perform work that is funny, insightful and profound at this year's Montclair Literary Festival spoken word competition.