Emily Franklin is back, this time with her first collection of poetry, Tell Me How You Got Here (Terapin Books) and she chats with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about the many and varied sources of her inspiration.
A 1942 novel about an Italian Jewish woman trying to survive the Holocaust with the family of farmers who take her in.
Claudia Hagadus Long talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about memory’s tenacious power, both to wound and to heal.
A novel that traces the fraught journey of Leonardo de Vinci’s famous <em>Lady with the Ermine</em>, and how this priceless work of art was ultimately saved from the Nazis. </p>
And although none of these compare even remotely to the loss of life and living, they inflict a particular kind of pain because they are set against the backdrop of such monumental tragedy. One of those small sorrows is the loss of lipstick—and by this I mean red lipstick because for me, that’s the only kind there is.
Jerusalem as a Second Language, Distelheim’s second novel, is out from Audbade on September 29, 2020 but sadly, Distelheim died on June 1 and didn’t get to savor the praise that is sure to come for her sophomore effort.
Iris Martin Cohen talks to Yona Zeldis McDonough about how her Jewish protagonist fits into this very Catholic world in her novel “Last Call on Decatur Street.”
Daphne Merkin on her new book 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love and the nature of lust, love and whether the two can ever truly be reconciled.
Yona Zeldis McDonough chats with author Susie Orman Schnall about her entertaining new summer read, “We Came Here to Shine”.
Michelle Bowdler talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about what her book Is Rape a Crime: A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto has meant for her—and what she hopes it will mean to others.
