Noted
Border Crossings, May 2008
According to today’s reporting, more than 70,000 thousand refugees have fled Ukraine for Moldova. I return in memory, shock, and disbelief to my Eastern European
March 1, 2022
Noted
Summer Diary: Father’s Day
Today I found myself purging the files from the research I did for What They Saved. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while,
June 21, 2016
Paris Memoir
I’M ALL EARS
As a New Yorker born and bred, I feel entitled to kvetch, and I may have never kvetched more than in dealing with the fate
April 10, 2014
Noted
My Memoirs Made Me Jewish
In the year 2000 I received a phone call from a real estate broker who informed me that I had inherited a small plot of
April 3, 2014
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: PLATFORMING
This is the second installment of the “countdown” posts I’m doing for shewrites.com. In my last post I chronicled the long and winding road I
October 31, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: The Journey
I’m posting four installments on the amazing website shewrites.com about the imminent publication of my new memoir. The countdown is a regular rubric where members
October 24, 2013
Travel
Jewish Book Week
I’m just back from Jewish Book Week in London, a city I now love the way I loved Paris when I first lived there—that feeling of
March 8, 2013
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books: the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need, for now, to launch (a k a promote) my new memoir, My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism. Naturally, I inhabit both spaces, which makes for a strangely bifurcated, though far from boring, existence. Click to view both Feminist Friendship Archive and My Multifocal Life projects.