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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Widow of Wall Street If you enjoy dark fiction about family relationships and deception, keep an eye out for a new novel coming out this April from bestselling author Randy Susan… Nat Bernstein January 10, 2017
Interview Interview: Anna Solomon with Sophie SiegelImage: Beowulf SheehanAnna Solomon’s latest novel, Leaving Lucy Pear, delves into relations between rich and poor, Jewish and Irish in Prohibition-era… Sophie Siegel September 22, 2016
Essay Dispatch from South Africa’s First Jewish Literary Festival, Part II Recently invited to speak at South Africa’s first-ever festival of Jewish literature, The Rowing Lesson author Anne Landsman shares the story of her visit and the… Anne Landsman August 10, 2016
Essay Dispatch from South Africa’s First Jewish Literary Festival, Part I Recently invited to speak at South Africa’s first-ever festival of Jewish literature, Anne Landsman shares the story of her visit and the discoveries she made there… Anne Landsman August 8, 2016
Excerpt Extra Diapers, Two Bottles, Four Cans of Evaporated Milk, Five $20 Bills Excerpted from Leaving Lucy Pear: A Novel by Anna SolomonIf they were coming, this was the night. The pears had stayed yellow and hard for so long that Bea had started… Anna Solomon July 21, 2016
