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    Judith Felsen­feld

    Judith Felsen­feld book of short fic­tion, Blaustein’s Kiss, was pub­lished in April, 2014. Her sto­ries have appeared in numer­ous mag­a­zines and lit­er­ary reviews, includ­ing The Chica­go Review, The South­west Review, Blue Mesa, and broad­cast nation­wide on NPR’s Select­ed Shorts.
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    Unex­pect­ed Guests in Fiction

    This week, Judith Felsen­feld, the author of Blaustein’s Kiss blogs for The Post­script on the reac­tion of some friends and fam­i­ly to her work of fiction. The…
    Judith Felsen­feld
    February 11, 2015

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