The latest updates.
Afar magazine spun the globe and sent me to Shannon, Ireland. You can read what happened in my article here.
“Bender weaves a number of provocative themes into this emotional and timely story”–read the rest of the Jewish Book Council’s review here.
ATown of Empty Rooms is included on a NC reading list. You can read the list here.
I talk to Gwenyfar Rohler of Wilmington magazine–you can read the interview here.
A Town of Empty Rooms finds a place on this list of recommended Jewish books by Library Journal. You can read the list here.
“A rich texture to her observant, intense, lyrical writing.” This blog recommends A Town of Empty Rooms for summer reading: You can read the whole review here.
Read the Jewish Community Voice summer reading list here.
Barbara Bush at WHQR talks to me about A Town of Empty Rooms. You can listen to the interview here.
Dionne Irving writes about my story “Eternal Love” for the Missouri Review’s celebration of National Short Story Month. You can read her post here.
Tikkun magazine reviews A Town of Empty Rooms. You can read the review here.
I’ll be teaching two courses at the always wonderful Iowa Writing Festival in June. June 16-21, I’ll be teaching the week-long course, Re-Visioning Your Story, and June 22-23 the weekend course, From Fact to Fiction. You can find out more about my classes and the other great courses offered at the festival here.
“It’s this complexity, the incommunicability of our pain, that makes us unreachable to one another…this novel conveys the problem; it is also, in its unsentimental sensitivity, a kind of corrective.” Read the review here.
Looking forward to my panel at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival! I’ll be part of the panel “The Home Front” on Saturday, April 20, 3:30 pm, at the Annenberg Auditorium at USC. You can see the schedule for the whole festival here.
Julian Callos shares his process of coming up with the drawings that illustrated my New York Times essay, “The Accidental Writer.” You can see the drawings here.