On Thursday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. at West Orange Public Library, journalist Barbara Kukla will read from and sign her new book, Newark Inside my Soul, a memoir of her years of experience writing in and about Newark. 

Kukla, a West Orange resident, was the former editor of the “Newark This Week” column in the Star Ledger and the author of two previous books, Swing City:  Newark Nightlife 1925-50 and Defying the Odds:  Triumphant Black Women of Newark.