Still Writing

Still Writing
Author: Dani Shapiro
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0802193439

This national bestseller from celebrated novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro is an intimate and eloquent companion to living a creative life. Through a blend of memoir, meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Shapiro offers her gift to writers everywhere: a guide of hard-won wisdom and advice for staying the course. In the ten years since the first edition, Still Writing has become a mainstay of creative writing classes as well as a lodestar for writers just starting out, and above all, an indispensable almanac for modern writers.

Holocaust Literature: Agosín to Lentin

Holocaust Literature: Agosín to Lentin
Author: S. Lillian Kremer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2003
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN: 0415929830

Review: "This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences. The collection is alphabetically arranged and consists of high-quality biocritical essays on 309 writers who are first-, second-, and third-generation survivors or important thinkers and spokespersons on the Holocaust. An essential literary reference work, this publication is an important addition to the genre and a solid value for public and academic libraries."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004

The New Diaspora

The New Diaspora
Author: Avinoam Patt
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0814340563

Readers of contemporary American fiction and Jewish cultural history will find The New Diaspora enlightening and deeply engaging.

The Literary Bent

The Literary Bent
Author: James D. Bloom
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780812215984

What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being written today are "literary," what distinguishes them from those many others that are not? The store managers who shelve books in separate "literature" and "fiction" sections clearly have something in mind, but they're not talking. James Bloom has his own ideas, and he is. With zest and conviction, Bloom argues that traditional aspirations to literariness persist in the poetry and fiction of writers such as Robert Stone, Jane Smiley, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and Robert Pinsky. All, in their various ways, exhibit a critical and playful awareness of their literary antecedents, display and resist the seductions of eloquence, arouse and discipline their readers' curiosity. Bloom deftly shows how their writings negotiate with the nonliterary media that dominate our culture, even as the cultural capital of canonical authors like Shakespeare and Keats is put to work on the pages of mail-order catalogs and the New York Times, on network television, and in the products of the Disney conglomerate.

The Archive Thief

The Archive Thief
Author: Lisa Moses Leff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199380953

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity.

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
Author: Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 030013553X

Presents an encyclopedia of Jewish culture from 1973 to 2005, including secular and religious examples from the visual arts, literature, and popular culture.

Duet with the Past

Duet with the Past
Author: Daron Hagen
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476677379

Composer, conductor and operatic polymath Daron Hagen has written five symphonies, a dozen concertos, 13 operas, reams of chamber music and more than 350 art songs. His intimate, unsparing memoir chronicles his life, from his haunted childhood in Wisconsin to the upper echelons of the music world in New York and Europe. Hagen's vivid anecdotes about his many collaborators, friends and mentors--including Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Muldoon, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson and Gore Vidal--counterpoint a cautionary tale of the sacrifices necessary to succeed in the brutally unforgiving business of classical music.

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature
Author: Benjamin Schreier
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812297563

Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of "breakthrough"—that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley—must also be seen as the critically originary moment of Jewish American literary study. According to Schreier, this is the primal scene of the Jewish American literary field, the point that the field cannot avoid repeating and replaying in instantiating itself as the more or less formalized academic study of Jewish American literature. More than sixty years later, the field's legibility, the very condition of its possibility, remains overwhelmingly grounded in a reliance on this single ethnological narrative. In a polemic against what he sees as the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Schreier interrogates a series of professionally powerful assumptions about Jewish American literary history—how they came into being and how they hardened into cliché. He offers a critical genealogy of breakthrough and other narratives through which Jewish Studies has asserted its compelling self-evidence, not simply under the banner of the historical realities Jewish Studies claims to represent but more fundamentally for the intellectual and institutional structures through which it produces these representations. He shows how a historicist scholarly narrative quickly consolidated and became hegemonic, in part because of its double articulation of a particular American subject and of a transnational historiography that categorically identified that subject as Jewish. The ethnological grounding of the Jewish American literary field is no longer tenable, Schreier asserts, in an argument with broad implications for the reconceptualization of Jewish and other identity-based ethnic studies.