From Paterson to Asbury Park

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Junot Diaz, Joyce Carole Oates, Dani Shapiro and I - as well as other N.J. authors - pick some favorite books about the Garden State. You can read the entire piece here.

My choice? "4th of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land" by Daniel Wolff (Bloomsbury USA).