Hannah Meyer
“The road to a disordered relationship with food and exercise was paved with well-intentioned comments about my appearance and eating habits.”
“The road to a disordered relationship with food and exercise was paved with well-intentioned comments about my appearance and eating habits.”
So, T and I came up with a compromise. I would show up to her daughter’s Purim reading, in costume, dressed AS a mechitza, and stand on the men’s side.
I am not Russian, but I speak Russian. It’s a kind of nonconsensual tattoo Stalin left behind on my parents—better tattooed than dead.
Some unlikely visitors at my new home connected me to my Jewish roots.
Leslie Simon on what she hopes readers will glean from this rollicking, inventive and wholly original tale.
Q & A on Sue Shapiros novel “The Book Bible” and her advice to future authors.
A Q&A with Roxane Van Iperen, who realized her house in the woods was once a refuge for Jewish children.
Historically, [women] haven’t been allowed to be members of the Country Clubs and smoky back rooms where real power sits. That’s the tragedy. The genius of comedy, if you can make it work, is taking tragedy and holding it up to a funhouse mirror so it’s no longer scary, but rather funny.