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Debra Spark

Debra Spark is author of the nov­els Coconuts for the Saint, The Ghost of Bridgetown and Good for the Jews. She edit­ed the best-sell­ing anthol­o­gy Twen­ty Under Thir­ty: Best Sto­ries by Amer­i­ca’s New Young Writ­ers, and her pop­u­lar lec­tures on writ­ing are col­lect­ed in Curi­ous Attrac­tions: Essays on Fic­tion Writ­ing. Debra is a pro­fes­sor at Col­by Col­lege and teach­es in the MFA Pro­gram for Writ­ers at War­ren Wil­son College.
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Unknown Caller
Debra Spark
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The Pret­ty Girl: Novel­la and Stories
Debra Spark
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Good For the Jews
Debra Spark
Essay

Acknowl­edg­ing the Ten­e­ment Museum

Ear­li­er this week Debra Spark wrote about meet­ing Adin Stein­saltz and why she makes her char­ac­ters Jew­ish. She has been blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil…
Debra Spark
April 27, 2012
Essay

Do My Char­ac­ters Need to be Jewish?

Ear­li­er this week, Debra Spark wrote about meet­ing Adin Stein­saltz. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.Should I show…
Debra Spark
April 25, 2012
Essay

Seek­ing Fact, Find­ing the Unknowable

Debra Spark​’s newest book, The Pret­ty Girl, is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.In lit­er­a­ture, as in…
Debra Spark
April 23, 2012

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