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Items with the tag:

on writing

Essay

This Is How a Fairy Tale Begins 

Rena Ross­ner
April 14, 2021
Interview

‘It’s a Sto­ry First’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Amy Hest

Emi­ly Schneider
April 12, 2021
Interview

‘Philip Roth: The Biog­ra­phy’ — A Con­ver­sa­tion with Blake Bailey

Don­ald Weber
April 6, 2021
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Poet­ry
The Minor Virtues
Lynn Levin
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Non­fic­tion
Philip Roth: The Biography
Blake Bai­ley
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Visu­al Arts
Meet­ing Place
Anat Propper Goldenberg
Fiction

Inter­view with the Golem

Matthew L. Cohn
March 23, 2021
Essay—From the Journal

The Silent Toil­ers Are No Longer Silent

Alex­is Landau
March 15, 2021
Essay

Poet­ry = Life

Lesléa New­man
March 8, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
The Bless­ing and the Curse: The Jew­ish Peo­ple and Their Books in the Twen­ti­eth Century
Adam Kirsch
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Fic­tion
Moth­er for Dinner
Shalom Aus­lan­der
Essay

Salinger and the Art of ​“Jew­ish Zen”

Jerome Charyn
January 4, 2021
Fiction—From the Journal

The Lit­tle Bottles

Weaver
December 14, 2020
Essay

How To Write Detec­tive Novels 

Jonathan Dun­sky
December 11, 2020
Excerpt

Excerpt — The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement 

Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Sim­cha Fishbane
November 23, 2020
Essay

Like­ly Morningstar

Melanie Con­roy-Gold­man
October 26, 2020
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