Non-Fiction: New Jersey Night with Jonathan Ames, Lauren Grodstein and Kathleen DeMarco

Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State, edited by Irina Reyn, is an anthology of essays by some of New Jersey's best young writers such as Tom Perrotta, Frederick Reiken, Lucinda Rosenfeld, Jonathan Ames, Lauren Grodstein, Kathleen DeMarco, Josh Braff and many others. The 18 (mostly original) essays in this anthology explore what it means to live in and write about New Jersey-- a state that occupies a unique place in our national consciousness.

Jonathan Ames is the author of three novels, I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and Wake Up, Sir!, and three collections of essays, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, and I Love You More Than You Know. He grew up in Oakland, NJ and is a graduate of Princeton University.

Lauren Grodstein is the author of the novel Reproduction is the Flaw of Love and The Best of Animals, a collection of stories. A native of Haworth, New Jersey, she is a professor of English at Rutgers-Camden.

Kathleen DeMarco, a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of the novels Cranberry Queen and The Difference Between You and Me. A native of Hammonton, NJ, she has recently moved to Moorestown, NJ with her husband and two sons after fifteen years of living in New York City.