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“Searching for Cassady,” an illustrated children’s book, can be found on Amazon.com
For the first time since 1977, the Pulitzer Prize committee today awarded no prize for fiction. I love reading fiction but I’m not finding a lot, lately, to cheer about. It feels fitting, then, to post on a memoir and two biographies. Each concerns the life of an American woman. For a work assignment, I
(...)Quite a ways into this story, someone at a party asks Emma how she met Dex. “We grew up together.†Their growing up and getting old (er) after university is the story of this charming book, which is laugh-out-loud funny and, at times, gut-wrenchingly sad. It’s not so much chick lit as Jane Austen on
(...)Some tales could only come to life — and make sense — in a particular time and place. In I.B. Singer’s “Enemies, A Love Story†Jewish refugee Herman Broder makes a home in Coney Island with his pregnant wife Yadwiga, who’s a Gentile. In the Bronx, he keeps his ravishing mistress, Masha, and her devout
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