Yona Zeldis McDonough
Mehta’s poems are miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.
Diane Mehta’s Miniaturist Poetry
Tag: literature
Golden Words: Q&A With Author, Editor, Activist Nora Gold
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author, editor and activist Nora Gold chats with Lilith Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about her latest novel, her other professional “hats,” and what a “novel of ideas” entails exactly.
When Her Persian Father Wouldn’t Let Her Go to College…
Esther Amini
Esther Amini, a Persian writer and psychotherapist, describes the struggle between her father’s old-world values and her distinctly American desire for a higher education. She tells the tale with courage and humor in a piece that will also be featured in Lilith’s Summer issue.
Jewish Woman, Muslim Man, and What This Unlikely Literary Pairing Produced
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Jewish woman collaborates on a book with a Muslim man? Sounds like the start of a joke—except that it’s anything but.
“I Wanted to Be Pat Boone’s Daughter.”
Chanel Dubofsky
In my child-mind, he was the ideal of what a father should be: someone nurturing, caring, safe.
What DID Nora know?
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Linda Yellin is a funny lady. To wit, her new novel, “What Nora Knew,” is crammed with snappy one-liners, snarky apercus and a whole lot of good-humored sass.