Yona Zeldis McDonough
A novel about generational trauma and how it affects both the present and the future.
Forget Russia: a Q&A with L. Bordetsky-Williams
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Tell Me How You Got Here: An Interview With Emily Franklin
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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 Q&A with Jennifer Robson, Author of “Our Darkest Night”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A 1942 novel about an Italian Jewish woman trying to survive the Holocaust with the family of farmers who take her in.
Saving Leonardo de Vinci’s “Lady with the Ermine”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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>
Friendships and Race: A New Orleans Coming of Age Story
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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 the Nature of Love and Lust
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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.
Nostalgia for the 1939 World’s Fair
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Yona Zeldis McDonough chats with author Susie Orman Schnall about her entertaining new summer read, “We Came Here to Shine”.
Is Rape a Crime? A Conversation with Michelle Bowdler
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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.
Author Q & A: The Many Faces of Sonia Taitz
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Sonia Taitz has written everything, it seems — from plays to memoirs to parenting manuals. Fiction editor Yona Zeldis McDonough explores the fascinating woman behind this staggering literary output.
Jill Smolowe on Four Funerals and a Wedding
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Jill Smolowe, a journalist and memoirist, had her own annus horribilis, only hers lasted a year and a half.