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Posts Tagged ‘Erika Dreifus’

#StorySunday: Celebrating Stories on a Weekly Basis

#StorySunday: Celebrating Stories on a Weekly Basis

During a past Short Story Month, I suggested five ways we might celebrate short stories. Topping the list was this recommendation:
Participate in #StorySunday: Reminded each Sunday by @TaniaHershman, short-story fans are encouraged to share a link via Twitter to someone else’s short story using the hashtag #StorySunday. Quick. Painless. Free. Click here to see the [...]

First Looks, January 2013: <em> All This Talk of Love </em> and <em> The Comfort of Lies </em>

First Looks, January 2013: All This Talk of Love and The Comfort of Lies

Erika Dreifus on two new novels: All This Talk of Love and The Comfort of Lies

First Looks, November 2012: <em>She Loves Me Not</em> and <em>Venus in the Afternoon</em>

First Looks, November 2012: She Loves Me Not and Venus in the Afternoon

Erika Dreifus on two new collections: Ron Hansen’s She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories and Tehila Lieberman’s Venus in the Afternoon.

First Looks, October 2012: <em>Fakes</em> and <em>The Art Forger</em>

First Looks, October 2012: Fakes and The Art Forger

Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the latest installment of our “First Looks” series, which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We publish “First Looks” here on the FWR blog around the 15th of each month, and as always, I’d love to hear your comments and your recommendations of forthcoming [...]

First Looks, September 2012: <em>Tell Everyone I Said Hi</em> and <em>BASS</em>

First Looks, September 2012: Tell Everyone I Said Hi and BASS

Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the latest installment of our “First Looks” series, which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We publish “First Looks” here on the FWR blog around the 15th of each month, and as always, I’d love to hear your comments and your recommendations of [...]

First Looks, August 2012: <em>Fobbit</em> and <em>Hold It 'Til It Hurts</em>

First Looks, August 2012: Fobbit and Hold It ‘Til It Hurts

Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the latest installment of our “First Looks” series, which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We publish “First Looks” here on the FWR blog around the 15th of each month, and as always, I’d love to hear your comments and your recommendations of [...]

Shout-Out: Erika Dreifus on remembering the Munich Olympics

Shout-Out: Erika Dreifus on remembering the Munich Olympics

Over at The Jewish Daily Forward, FWR Contributing Editor Erika Dreifus has written a moving piece about the murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics of 1972 and how this event found their way into her fiction. Erika writes about how her classmates challenged her use of this history:
When I workshopped “Homecomings,” several [...]

First Looks, July 2012: <em>Requiem</em>, <em>A Cupboard Full of Coats</em>, and <em>Summer Lies</em>

First Looks, July 2012: Requiem, A Cupboard Full of Coats, and Summer Lies

Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the latest installment of our “First Looks” series, which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We publish “First Looks” here on the FWR blog around the 15th of each month, and as always, I’d love to hear your comments and your recommendations of [...]

First Looks, June 2012: <em>The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln</em> and <em>The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker</em>

First Looks, June 2012: The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln and The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker

Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the latest installment of our new blog series, “First Looks,” which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We publish “First Looks” here on the FWR blog around the middle of each month, and as always, I’d love to hear your [...]

First Looks, May 2012: <em>The Last Hundred Days</em> and <em>The Innocents</em>

First Looks, May 2012: The Last Hundred Days and The Innocents

Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the latest installment of our “First Looks” series, which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We publish “First Looks” here on the FWR blog around the 15th of each month, and as always, I’d love to hear your comments [...]