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Category Archives: Jewish Literature
Katharine Weber: A Life
A manuscript came back to a house in Connecticut with a printed rejection slip. The story carried the title “Friend of the Family.” The writer who had mailed it read the note, set the pages aside, and after a while … Continue reading
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Ayalet Waldman
The studio audience has come to judge a mother. Ayelet Waldman (b. December 11, 1964) steps onto the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show in the spring of 2005, and before she reaches her chair a woman rises in the … Continue reading
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Steve Stern and the Resurrection of the Pinch
One afternoon in the early 1980s the telephone rings twice for Steve Stern (b. 1947), and between the two calls his life turns over. The first voice tells him the college does not need him next term. Enrollment is down. … Continue reading
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Diana Spechler – Going Off
In February 2015 the New York Times runs a column by a novelist most of its readers do not know. The title is “Going Off.” Each week Diana Spechler (b. 1979) reports on what it takes to come off the … Continue reading
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Leora Skolkin-Smith
The father comes into the bedroom at night to talk about Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Leora Skolkin-Smith (b. 1952) is eleven and lives between an apartment in Manhattan and a house in Pound Ridge, New York. Her father is an entertainment … Continue reading
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Margot Singer
In the mid-1990s Margot Singer (b. 1962) holds the title of principal at McKinsey & Company in New York. She earned it through a decade of client teams, slide decks, and red-eye flights, the analytic grind the firm asks of … Continue reading
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Andrea Seigel: The Sideways Career
A Google alert lands in Andrea Seigel‘s (b. October 28, 1979) inbox one morning in 2008. She keeps the alert running on her own name and defends the habit with a joke about being a Kardashian. The alert carries a … Continue reading
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Laurie Gwen Shapiro (b. 1966) keeps a list of strangers. The list is a spreadsheet of Gawronskis up and down the East Coast, names and numbers she pulled from public records. She has found a newspaper item from 1928 about … Continue reading
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Robert Anthony Siegel: The Education of a Criminal’s Son
In the winter of 1972 a New York family drives through Italy. The father has come to settle a small legal matter for a client named Basil, a marijuana dealer, and the job takes a few days. Then the mother … Continue reading
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The Basement and the Birthing Room: A Life of Ilana Stanger-Ross
Go down the stairs of a two-story brick house in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and you reach a room that does not exist. A seamstress keeps it. She is sixty, childless, married a long time to a retired schoolteacher who lives … Continue reading
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