Strong Words Issue 57

Strong Words is for people who love books, love reading about them, and need an entertaining, useful and reliable source of suggestions as to what to read next. Now published 6 times a year, it covers new fiction and nonfiction alike and has developed a fanatical following who can’t get enough of its witty enthusiasm and its utter refusal to admit blurb, cliché and academic jargon.

Issue 57 includes:

"Looks at some of the New York people whose own stories were even bigger and more eye-catching than the city where they made their name. The actor James Gandolfini, the activist Marsha P. Johnson, Mr Restaurant Keith McNally and more. There's nothing bigger than New York big."