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Essay Setting a Story in the Shell of a Rust Belt Boomtown Earlier this week, Kim Brooks divulged the little-known American history of World War II before Pearl Harbor, which inspired her novel The Houseguest. Kim is blogging… Kim Brooks April 13, 2016
Essay Before Pearl Harbor Kim Brooks is the author of The Houseguest: A Novel, out tomorrow from Counterpoint Press. She is blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series on The… Kim Brooks April 11, 2016
Essay “Where Should the Story Begin?” The Worlds of Holocaust Graphic Memoirs Earlier this week, Tahneer Oksman traversed the depictions of space in women’s graphic memoirs included in her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and… Tahneer Oksman April 7, 2016
Essay Drawing a Room of Her Own With the recent release of her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, author (and frequent… Tahneer Oksman April 4, 2016
Essay It Isn’t Often You Come Across an Eighth-Generation Israeli Jew Sarit Yishai-Levi is the author of four non-fiction books and the bestselling novel The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. Sarit is blogging here all week as part of the… Sarit Yishai-Levi April 4, 2016
