Georgette Gouveia

Georgette Gouveia

A 2020 YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester Visionary Award winner and a 2018 Folio Women in Media Award Winner, Georgette Gouveia is the author of “Burying the Dead,” “Daimon: A Novel of Alexander the Great” and "Seamless Sky" (JMS Books), as well as “The Penalty for Holding,” a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist (JMS Books), and “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group). They’re part of her series of novels, “The Games Men Play,” also the name of the sports/culture blog she writes. Her short story “The Glass Door,” about love in the time of the coronavirus, was recently published by JMS. Read WAG’s serialization of “Seamless Sky” here. For more, visit thegamesmenplay.com.

December 2021

EDITOR’S LETTER

As we conclude 2021, we have dedicated our December issue to New York state’s newly minted third largest city — behind the Big Apple and Buffalo — Yonkers.

December 2021

Celebrated Yonkers

From quirky mentions (the city is the title character’s hometown in the 1925 pop song “If You Knew Susie”) to more thoughtful explorations (the 2015 miniseries “Show Me a Hero,” about Yonkers housing desegregation crisis), Yonkers has been a wellspring for some of our most resonant works as well as some of our finest artists, civic leaders, athletes and inventors.

December 2021

Mr. Yonkers

An ambitious visionary, 17th-century Dutch lawyer Adriaen van der Donck advocated for a more representative government in the Dutch West India Co. colony of New Netherland. His dream foreshadowed New York and the United States even as he gave his name to the city of Yonkers.

December 2021

Where jobs are job one

As it heads into the bakery’s 40th year, Greyston Foundation Inc. has relegated many of the aspects of its former mission — HIV/AIDS, homelessness, a community garden — to other organizations to focus on “jobs, jobs, jobs.”