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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
by Deborah Feldman (Goodreads Author)
read in June, 2012
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| Unorthodox (Simon & Schuster, 2012) is Deborah Feldman’s memoir of growing up in Brooklyn in the most insular of Chasidic sects, the Satmars. Fathered by the village idiot and abandoned by her mother, Feldman is raised by her grandparents, marrie...more | |
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(Read the original post by clicking here.) Alexandra Fuller’s latest book, The Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, continues to roam around in my imagination more than a month after I finished reading it. She is a memoirist who transports t...more |
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“I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.”
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(Read the original post by clicking here.) Journalistic nonfiction makes an unspoken promise to readers: it doesn’t just tell a tremendous story, it forces readers to question and examine current cultural practices and societal values. A strong journa...more |
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| How does one combine memoir, ethnography, self-discovery, and history, while contributing to two important bodies of literature—Holocaust and psychotherapy—in an eminently readable book? Do what Leila Levinson has done in Gated Grief: The Daughter of...more | |
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Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up
by Harriet Lerner
read in February, 2012
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| I begin with two confessional caveats. One, Harriet Goldhor Lerner is my second cousin; we communicate by email, but have never met. Two, I am not Marriage Rules’ target audience even though my husband of 16 years and I have been in marriage counseli...more | |
“Doesn’t the seventeenth-century use of the measurement yard for penis strike you as a bit of an exaggeration, unless the yard then was not the yard now?”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
“Marketing is not what lures a writer to this pursuit. Marketing is the adversary that arrives smuggled inside the Trojan Horse of one’s creative impulse.”
― Jane Friedman
― Jane Friedman
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson
― Thomas Jefferson
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