Sanford Pinsker


ROOFTOP RENAISSANCE

By Sanford Pinsker

251 West 100th Street, New York, N.Y., 212-865-0600.

Scribblers on the Roof:

Contemporary American Jewish Fiction Edited by Melvin Jules Bukietand David G. Roskies Persea Books, 352 pages, $15.95. * * *At the turn of the past century, New York City’s Lower East Side was more crowded than Calcutta, and out of that tenement squalorRead More

In Defense of the (High) Art of Writing

By Sanford Pinsker

The Din in the Head By Cynthia Ozick Houghton Mifflin, 256 pages, $24. * * *It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that any person in possession of a large personal library will covet, if he or she does not already own, essays written by Cynthia Ozick. Why? Because Ozick’s paragraphs contain equal measuresRead More

The Imagination’s Many Rooms

By Sanford Pinsker

Jay Neugeboren’s “News From the New American Diaspora and Other Tales of Exile” is not only a cause for celebration in its own right but also an occasion to look back at Neugeboren’s long — and varied — career at the writing desk.Neugeboren’s short stories have been much honored, appearing in some 50 anthologiesRead More

South Florida, Jewish Families and the Flight of Birds

By Sanford Pinsker

Andrew Furman is best known for two smart, engaging books of criticism on Jewish-American fiction: “Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel” and “Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma.” In an age when the paragraphs of far too manyRead More

Spiritual Hunger Artists

By Sanford Pinsker

Joy Comes in the Morning By Jonathan Rosen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pages, $25. ——Jonathan Rosen came to wide public attention, first as the editor (for some 10 years) of this newspaper’s highly regarded Arts & Letters section, and then as the author of “Eve’s Apple” (Random House Inc., l997), an impressive debut novel,Read More



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