From Tripoli to Damascus The Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2009 (published under a pen name to protect the identity of the interviewees) I’d spent five days in Beirut partying too hard and sleeping on a friend’s small couch. I needed a respite from the city lined with bullet-pocked buildings and booming nightclubs. I considered Tripoli—a …
A sad reflection of reality: interview with author Esther Blau Marcus The Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2009 Esther Blau Marcus, author of the children’s book Tzeva Adom, offers the following story to illustrate her family’s experience of Operation Cast Lead: “During the war,” Marcus recalls, “I had the TV on one day and my …
Mary, Mary, quite contrary: interview with author Mary Gordon The Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2009 Mary Gordon’s work has been hailed as a prism that refracts Irish-American life, offering the reader a complex, multicolored look at this group, but the author herself is difficult to situate on the spectrum of writers. While she has …
Words that can’t sit still: review of Warsaw Bikini and interview with author Sandra Simonds The Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2009 To move through the pages of Sandra Simonds’s collection of poetry, Warsaw Bikini, is to move with intent, with care, as though you were walking through a minefield. That’s not to say Warsaw …