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I Don’t Like To Look At Fat People
Unless the person has some extraordinary qualities or proximities to me, I don’t like to look at fat people. If I see the person in shul or at work or in a writer’s group or at yoga and I get … Continue reading
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Tagged emotional truth, jewish book, new novel, odd jobs, shul, two novels
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Skinny – Diana Spechler’s New Novel
On April 21, I interviewed by phone novelist Diana Spechler about her new book Skinny. In 2008, I interviewed Diana in Brentwood about her debut – Who By Fire. Luke: “Give me an overview.” Diana: “In early 2006, I decided … Continue reading
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Tagged camp director, emotional truth, fiction fiction, good writing, new novel, water aerobics
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Wrestling With My Sexuality
Professor D.G. Myers writes: What I am suggesting is that the two treatments of dialogue in the contemporary novel—the scrupulous mimicry of everyday speech and the studied exclusion of differing points of view—are connected at the level of basic assumptions … Continue reading
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Tagged atomic weapons, hiroshima and nagasaki, luke ford, new novel, reading luke, robb forman dew
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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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Dennis Prager Delivers The 7th Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture
Who was Ariel Avrech? 10 a.m. Young Israel of Century City (YICC). I walk in clutching a copy of the new novel — By Fire, By Water — written by Mitchell James Kaplan. I flip to the first page, which … Continue reading
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