PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Film & TV Matthew Weiner Doesn’t Remember Misconduct With ‘Mad Men’ Writer
Matthew Weiner was reflecting on his management style this Yom Kippur, but continues to deny charges of misconduct involving a female employee. In a Vanity Fair profile released in advance of the “Mad Men” creator’s new Amazon series, “The Romanoffs,” Joy Press, the piece’s writer, noted that Weiner appeared “palpably nervous, his conversation a tangle…
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Culture How A Lost 1955 Bar Mitzvah Album And Its Owner Were Reunited
On Thursday, September 20, 2018 at the Jewel-Osco supermarket in Chicago, Jenni Spinner, a freelance writer and editor, found a 1955 Bar Mitzvah album on top of a stack of Lagunitas IPA 12 packs in the liquor department. What such an interesting personal item was doing there we still don’t know, but thanks to some…
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Theater ‘Hoaxocaust’ Is As Controversial As It Sounds
Barry Levey wants a Jewish identity free of victimhood. Confronting his brother’s interfaith marriage, his mother’s objection to the union and his LatinX boyfriend’s insistence that the Jewish story is no longer one of persecution, he begins to wonder: What would it be like if the Holocaust never happened? “Imagine how much easier life would…
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Culture Philip Roth Gets The Memorial He Wanted At The New York Public Library
On September 25, 2018, Philip Roth, a titan of American letters received a memorial service at the New York Public Library at Bryant Park. The Associated Press reports that hundreds gathered to celebrate the memory of the late author, who passed away in May at the age of 85. Among the attendees were writers Salman…
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Theater See The Original Costume Sketches For ‘Fiddler On The Roof’
The iconic look of “Fiddler on the Roof,” from its Broadway debut to the 1976 film, is due in no small part to the show’s original costume designer, Patricia Zipprodt. 30 photos of Zipprodt’s design sketches for the musical’s 1964 premiere, part of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ collection and recently…
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Slideshows Patricia Zipprodt’s Costumes Sketches For ‘Fiddler On The Roof’
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Culture Liana Finck On Peter Pan, Nabokov And The Rats Of Self-Doubt
In many ways, the comic artist Liana Finck’s work is fearless. Finck’s style is bold in its simplicity and storytelling, and now, in her latest book, “Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir” (Random House) brave in its intimacy. The book follows Leola (a fictionalized version of the artist) as she tries to reckon with the…
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Culture The National Book Foundation Names Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Hannah Lillith Assadi In 5 Under 35 Award
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2018 winners of its 5 Under 35 award for early career fiction writers based in the United States. The winners, who are selected by past recipients, can only have one published book to their name. One of this year’s winners, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, has been making headlines for nonliterary…
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