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    Behind Farm 54: The Mak­ing of the Sto­ry ​“Hous­es”

    Ear­li­er this week, Galit and Gilad Selik­tar shared the mak­ing of the first sto­ry and the sec­ond sto­ry in Farm 54. In…
    Galit Selik­tar, Gilad Selik­tar
    July 15, 2011
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    Behind Farm 54: The Mak­ing of the Sto­ry ​“Span­ish Perfume”

    On Mon­day, Galit and Gilad Selik­tar shared the mak­ing of the first sto­ry in Farm 54, ​“The Sub­sti­tute Life­guard.” Today, they share…
    Galit Selik­tar, Gilad Selik­tar
    July 13, 2011
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    Behind Farm 54: The Mak­ing of the Graph­ic Novel

    The graph­ic nov­el Farm 54 is based on three sto­ries writ­ten by Galit Selik­tar. The sto­ries were first pub­lished in Israeli lit­er­ary mag­a­zines and then…
    Galit Selik­tar, Gilad Selik­tar
    July 11, 2011
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    Mak­ing it ​“True”

    On Tues­day, Evan Fal­l­en­berg explored writ­ing elab­o­rate lies with con­vinc­ing details. Today, he fur­ther explores how much of his fic­tion is ​“true”.“How much of my…
    Evan Fal­l­en­berg
    July 7, 2011
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    Elab­o­rate Lies with Con­vinc­ing Details

    Evan Fal­l­en­berg is the author of When We Danced on Water, a nov­el. He will be blog­ging all week for MyJew­ish­Learn­ing and the Jew­ish Book…
    Evan Fal­l­en­berg
    July 5, 2011
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    The Gourmet’s Kids Ate Junk

    Ear­li­er this week, Efrat Libfroind wrote about her tribe, cook­ing and self-improve­ment and being a moth­er, a full-time pas­try chef and…
    Efrat Libfroind
    July 1, 2011
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