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Stolpersteine
German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He embedded them in the sidewalk in front of Poststrasse 6, Freiburg im...
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Borrowed Words
I have always been fascinated by epigraphs — those borrowed words that authors choose to introduce and encapsulate the message of their books. And so, almost as soon as I started writing my own book,...
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Jews and Indians, Past and Present
This is a guest post by Andrew Tertes, the author of Jacob’s Return. He is blogging here today for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning. Gerald Kolpan’s article “Blazing Saddles It Wasn’t” brought...
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Are You a Jewish Writer?
First of all, I want to open up my week of blogging by saying how happy I am to be here and have you all be the ones who are helping me shepherd my new novel, The World Without You, to publication...
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From Grandfather to Father to Son
Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, comes out this week. The story goes that, in 1923, when my father, age five, arrived at Ellis Island, he refused to speak to the immigration officials,...
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How Did I End up Doing This?
Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available. For a long time I wanted to be a fiction writer, but then for a long time I also wanted to be a basketball player, and at a certain...
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Recasting a Classic
Francesca Segal’s novel The Innocents is now available. I would never have set out to recast a classic, Pulitzer-winning American novel– it seemed the height of chutzpah. But once the idea took up...
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Who Are Your Characters Really?
It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ask me for the truth. ‘Go on,’ a new acquaintance might urge, within moments of our...
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Almost Jewish
So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book, Stations West, was about Jewish immigrants in 19th century Oklahoma. It was very “Jewish.” It was so Jewish it was nominated...
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My Family’s Reaction to Fame Shark
“I sound like a cheap, mean kyke,” my father raged. “I sound like an idiot, a complete non-entity,” my mother was furious too. I had been nervous about them reading my first memoir, Fame Shark, but...
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