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Category Archives: Jewish Literature
Elizabeth Rosner
In Schenectady the General Electric works runs its shifts and the town carries the company’s name in the air. Inside a house there, a girl listens to what her parents do not say. Six languages move through the rooms. German … Continue reading
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Rachel Resnick
Rachel Resnick (b. 1961) comes home to a drowned hard drive. An ex-boyfriend has broken into her cottage and soaked the machine that holds her work, her drafts, her record of herself. She is past forty. She is single, broke, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Jewish Journalism, Jewish Literature
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Jon Papernick
Jon Papernick (b. 1970) keeps a bookstore in his memory the way other men keep a first house. He grew up in Toronto, across a wide road from a shopping mall, and the mall held a bookstore, and the bookstore … Continue reading
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Belonging Without Believing: A Life of Tova Mirvis
Tova Mirvis (b. 1972) does not think of herself as a true-crime reader. Then, in the summer of 2014, a man her ex-husband knows is shot to death outside his home in Tallahassee, and she cannot stop reading about it. … Continue reading
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Adam Mansbach
The girl will not sleep. It is past ten in Berkeley, and Adam Mansbach (b. 1976) has read the books, sung the songs, refilled the cup of water, and lain down on the floor beside the small bed, and risen, … Continue reading
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The Success They Mourn: How the Death of American Jewish Literature Became a Career
The mournful-American-Jewish-literature genre is not criticism. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a dying literary tradition, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated elegiac clarity, through institutional channels that … Continue reading
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The Queer Frum Orthodox Chasidic Mother Of Eight Novelist
Somebody tried to set me up with this woman. Then I did my research and found out she was queer. So I just asked for an interview instead. Goldie said yes. We exchanged a bunch of emails trying to nail … Continue reading
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Tagged chicago jewish news, lubavitcher rebbe, orthodox jew, synagogue life, three girls
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The Free World By David Bezmogis
I’m halfway through this acclaimed new novel and I’ve yet to encounter a character I give a damn about. Perhaps there are just too many people in the book for me to track.
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By Fire, By Water
I just finished reading this terrific new novel by Mitchell James Kaplan. We talk by phone today. Luke: “Mitchell, when you were a child, did you want to be a novelist when you grew up?” Mitchell: “Yes. Certainly from the … Continue reading
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Tagged cate school, dysfunctional world, james kaplan, latest books, munich germany, new novel
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My Interview With Author Amy Bloom
From AmyBloom.com: "Author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. … Continue reading
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Tagged amy bloom, auditory hallucinations, henry awards, lyn paul, national book critics, national book critics circle award, sore butt, two novels, yale university
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