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Hudson Reporter 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm A free virtual panel discussion about the Black Tom Explosion featuring historians and the play’s creative team will take place on Zoom. Free advance registration is required. The panel will feature historians Janet Akhtarshenas of Liberty State Park and Timothy R. White of New Jersey City University, along with playwright Martin Casella and director Darren Lee. Additional panelists may be announced at a later date. Attendees are encouraged to listen to the podcast before attending the panel.Today, the Black Tom site is part of New Jersey’s Liberty St...

The Watchlist: January 2021   From Innsmouth Free Press | The Route of Ice and Saltby José Luis Zárate, translated from the Spanish by David Bowles | Fiction | 196 pages | ISBN 9781927990292 | US$15.59 What the publisher says: “A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. [. . .] The cult vampire novella by Mexican author José Luis Zárate is available for the first time in English. Translated by David Bowles and with an accompanying essay by noted horror author Poppy Z. Brite, it reveals an unknown corner of Latin American literature.” ...

New radio play dramatizes terror attack at Black Tom Updated Jan 27, 2021; Posted Jan 27, 2021 Playwright Martin Casella’s “Black Tom Island” has been adapted into a radio play by Art House Productions and is available for download. Facebook Share On the morning of July 30, 1916, one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions took place in Jersey City when German saboteurs destroyed a U.S. munitions depot on Black Tom Island. Playwright Martin Casella’s “Black Tom Island,” based on the actual incident and seen through the lens of a fictionalized Slovak immigrant and his wi...

Hudson Reporter Art House Productions Releases BLACK TOM ISLAND Radio Play ❮ ❮ ❯ Art House Productions (Meredith Burns, Executive Director) is proud to announce their first audio play, Black Tom Island by Martin Casella. This free audio play is available for download on www.arthouseproductions.org and www.youtube.com/arthouseproductions. A free virtual panel discussion about the actual event featuring historians and the play’s creative team will take place on Sunday, February 7 at 3:00pm EST on Zoom. Based on an actual incident that took place in Jersey City in 1916, Black Tom Isl...

Illustration by Andrea Ventura. Omelas, the utopian setting of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1973 short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” is built on deception. Le Guin introduces the city on a day of celebration, dwelling on its merry crowds, gorgeous architecture, and picturesque proximity to a bay and snow-capped mountains. As the narrator roves through this vista, describing the sights with pride and wonder, the admiration grows defensive. “Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy?” the narrator asks. “Then let me describe one more thing.” The deception...