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Excerpt Who Got an American Any Longer? Excerpt from Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman.Maya had been early to pick up Max the day he didn’t come home with the school bus. Usually she was still powering up… Boris Fishman March 3, 2016
Excerpt Moscow, 1953: The Czardom of Black Cats and Black Marias Excerpted from The Yid: A Novel by Paul Goldberg, published by arrangement with Picador.In the early morning of March 1, 1953, when Iosif Stalin collapsed at his… Paul Goldberg January 19, 2016
Excerpt June 19, 1953 Excerpted from The Hours Count: A Novel by Jillian Cantor.On the night Ethel is supposed to die, the air is too heavy to breathe.The humidity clings to my skin, my… Jillian Cantor November 23, 2015
Excerpt That Man Suffer! Excerpted from The Pawnbroker: A Novel by Edward Lewis Wallant.His feet crunched on the hard-packed sand. On his left was the Harlem River, across the street to the… Edward Lewis Wallant November 10, 2015
Excerpt The Morning of Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination: A Prologue Excerpted from Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron.Yitzhak Rabin woke up before seven the morning of November… Dan Ephron October 22, 2015
