Some artists work with a brush; others with a pen, and still others with their voices, bodies, or a musical instrument. Trudie Strobel’s instrument is a slender needle, and she wields it with fierce and incredible power.
The Book Of V (Henry Holt, $27.99) is nothing if not ambitious—three main characters, three storylines and three wildly divergent time periods—and yet novelist Anna Solomon manages to weave all three together with an effortlessness that belies the profound nature of her fictional probing.
Dani Alpert is one funny lady and like many comics, she uses her life as a prime source for her material. After falling for a divorced dad of two, she struggles to find a way to embrace the offspring she claims never to have wanted.
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Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to novelist Michelle Cameron about her new novel “Beyond the Ghetto Gates”.
A Yiddish novelist who is brazen and frank about the unequal power dynamics between men and women in intimate relationships.
Debut novelist Carmit Delman talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about how food becomes both marker and symbol for the haves and the have nots.
Newberry award-winning author Gail Carson Levine talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about bringing significant episodes in Jewish history to life again.
This was a story that had particular resonance for me. I grew up in Brooklyn, in a lower-middle-class neighborhood amidst many Jews. We kids all went to the local public school; the Catholics in our ‘hood, Italian and Irish mostly, went to the parochial school. There was no particular animosity there but there wasn’t that much interaction either.
The book has helped the author and her family heal from shock and tragedy in many ways.
