Eryn Loeb
By Eryn Loeb
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Life ‘Unexpectedly Eighty’: Judith Viorst’s Poetry of Aging
Judith Viorst has long been an eyewitness to the quirks of the human life cycle. She is a renowned children’s author — producing such gems as the storybook “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” — and has written several adult nonfiction books, including the best-selling “Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies,…
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Culture Time to Get Out of Your Apartment
How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment by Gregory Levey Free Press, 288 pages, $25.00 How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden Vertigo, 208 pages, $24.99 Although Gregory Levey briefly worked as a speechwriter for Ariel Sharon (a job he…
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Life Kate Bernheimer: Champion of the Fairy Tale
A fierce believer in the power and possibility of fairy tales, Kate Bernheimer has explored the genre’s history in essays and scholarship, edited anthologies of and about fairy tales, founded a literary journal focused on them (Fairy Tale Review) and written fresh tales of her own — as short stories, novels, and children’s books. It’s…
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Culture Putting The High In High School
The November Criminals By Sam Munson Doubleday, 272 pages, $24.95 When you’re a teenager, there’s a sense that life is both as real and consequential as it’s ever going to get and, at the same time, that it’s just a rehearsal for something bigger. In Sam Munson’s debut novel, “The November Criminals,” this helps explain…
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Culture A Loving March Back to His Father
My Father’s Bonus March By Adam Langer Random House, 240 pages, $26. Adam Langer and his father, Seymour, had what Langer describes as “a typical relationship between a Depression-era father and son.” His dad, he writes in his new memoir, “My Father’s Bonus March,” was “a man I respected and admired but around whom I…
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Culture ‘We Found a Baby in You’
What I Thought I Knew By Alice Eve Cohen Viking, 208 pages, $24.95 One of the few certainties in Alice Eve Cohen’s life was her infertility, the result of her mother taking the synthetic hormone DES while she was pregnant, before the drug’s potential for fetal damage was widely known. At the age of 44…
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Culture Living With Imminent Ghosts
Invisible Sisters By Jessica Handler PublicAffairs, 272 pages, $24.95. Susie Handler died of acute lymphocytic leukemia in 1969, when she was 8 years old. Her sisters, Sarah and Jessica (ages 4 and 10, respectively, at the time), grew up in the aftermath, with the next inevitable trauma looming: Sarah had Kostmann’s syndrome, a bone marrow…
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Culture A Young Playwright’s Strange Trip
Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine By Jonathan Garfinkel W. W. Norton, 358 pages, $25.95. Jonathan Garfinkel’s new book, “Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine,” is, in a broad sense, the story of one man and his philosophical, spiritual and romantic crises. Pretty quickly, though, it’s revealed to be about the mostly predictable things that…
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