The Turnpike. The Parkway. The Shore. Malls. Mobsters. Bad accents. No other state in America elicits reaction quite like New Jersey. Though the Garden State has risen to the top of pop culture consciousness, its significant and diverse literary culture has gone sorely under the radar--until now. What's Your Exit? A Literary Detour through New Jersey is a collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and essay inspired by a place that piques the curiosity of all who have set foot in it...and those who haven't. Themes of family, friendship, sex, love, fear, nostalgia and longing populate this anthology, which features forty-nine writers whose visions of the Jersey landscape are as eclectic and beautiful, and as unnerving and mysterious and bold as the place that unites them.
What's Your Exit?: A Literary Detour Through New Jersey
ISBN: 0977934357
ISBN 13: 9780977934355
Pages: 326
Authors: Joe Vallese, Susanne Antonetta, Jackie Corley, Louise DeSalvo, J. Robert Lennon, Paul Lisicky, Timothy Liu, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Perrotta, Robert Pinsky, Michael Aaron Rockland, Jason Biggs, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Alicia A. Beale, J.C. Todd