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...with that. The novel is alive because writers like Price are crafting books like Samaritan (Knopf; 379 pages), about a guy who discovers the hard way what a complicated transaction charity can be. This is the third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered the book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers for Clockers. In preparation for that book, he dropped into the lives of people--narcs, druglords...
Eventually, so does Ray Mitchell, the generous but by no means selfless man at the center of Samaritan. At 42, Ray is a successful TV writer who has turned his back on Hollywood and headed home to Jersey, to the housing project where he grew up and the daughter he hasn't seen much of. He volunteers to teach a writing class at his old high school. For Ray, self-appointed sunbeam is a role he warms to right away. Before long, he is recklessly lending big sums to near strangers and gathering twitchy characters under his wing...
...ongoing campus debate parallels situations that have recently arisen at two public universities—Rutgers University in New Jersey, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
With fingers snapping and feet tapping to the jazzy rhythms of the Tin Pan Alley hit “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”, these boys make looking good their job. And, well, it is. Over a three day shoot in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, the Din and Tonics masqueraded as their 1950s counterparts in a film that has already generated Oscar buzz...
...schools are, undoubtedly, also giving her a pretty long look themselves. Hughes’ dad, John, told The Crimson that a major factor in her decision will be her training schedule, and both Columbia and Yale are a lot closer than Harvard to her training site in New Jersey and her home on Long Island...