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Famous Roots: An Interview With My Babbi and Zayde
My maternal grandmother fought to escape her Lower East Side. My Babbi was born in 1932 and raised on Pitt ...
Interview: Ben Katchor and Hand-Drying in America
Eddy Portnoy sat down with Ben Katchor to discuss his newest book, Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories, which will be published by Pantheon ...
Sleeping on Felix Frankfurter’s Couch
Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...
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, ...
Do My Characters Need to be Jewish?
Should I show my husband my work? My sister? My mother? Students sometimes ask me this. Go ahead, I say. ...