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A Letter to Harvey Milk: Short Stories
This poignant and humorous collection of stories offers a fresh perspective on current issues such as homosexuality and anti-Semitism and lends a unique voice to those experiencing growing pains and self-discovery. Newmans readers accompany her quirky Jewish characters through all types of experiences from an initial lesbian sexual encounter to being sequestered in a colle...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
August 30th 2004
by University of Wisconsin Press
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Used this book for my gay/lesbian literature class this past semester. It's an old classic, but stands up. We were looking at questions of faith, and it was a great way to look at Jewish and lesbian identity -- Newman does a great job examining this issue. She is close to my age and writes about experiences that are familiar to me, so I felt a bit like a relic when teaching the book. It was nice to re-experience the early coming out days.
I've only read "A Letter to Harvey Milk" the title short story to this collection but it was fantastically sweet. Honestly, I cried.
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It's so bad but I love it anyway. :)
Met this woman at the AWP writers conference and liked what she had to say about fiction/memoir - stuff I found personally relevant. later saw her selling/signing so bought this book. They are very good short stories, but even better if you are jewish, lesbian or both, as the author is. Lots of yiddish with a glossary in the back. great cultural education of a sort. good read.
chock full of jewish lesbian angst, family angst, generational angst, and "finding your place in the world" angst. and there are some really great characters. there was one story that involved a purple rhinestone earring that made me tear up a bit.
Some of these stories were good, particularily the title story, which made me get all teary. But some were rediculously bad. like the one about the woman who locks herself in her apartment, convinced that she is Anne Frank.
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the collection is okay, but I really like the short story that is the title. I heard it on the radio when I was nine or ten and remembered it ever since until one day a couple years ago I found it in the bookstore.
An amazingly well-written short story collection. Very identifiable to anyone, Jewish or not, gay or not. The title story is probably the best short story I have ever read.
damn skippy.... definitely a great jewish homo read
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Lesléa Newman (born 1955, Brooklyn, NY) is the author of over 50 books including Heather Has Two Mommies, A Letter To Harvey Milk, Writing From The Heart, In Every Laugh a Tear, The Femme Mystique, Still Life with Buddy, Fat Chance and Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear.
She has received many literary awards including Poetry Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation ...more
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