Susan Comninos
By Susan Comninos
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The Schmooze Yossi Huttler’s Poetry of Fate and Faith
The unswerving religious focus of emerging American poet Yossi Huttler, 45, will likely limit the audience for his debut book, “Lakol Z’man” (“A Time for Everything”) — and that’s a shame. In it, the author, who is pious in his Jewish practice, evokes piyyutim, Hebrew liturgical verse. But he also alludes to a more varied…
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Culture How To Carry On
Displaced Persons By Ghita Schwarz William Morrow, 352 pages, $25.99 When American-born novelist Cynthia Ozick published her 1997 New Yorker essay “Who Owns Anne Frank?” the possessive stance of the author, then 69, was clear. By the time that Tova Reich, the American-born author of the novel “My Holocaust” (HarperCollins, 2007) — and a generation…
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News Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection Edited by Shana Liebman Grand Central Publishing, 288 pages, $13.99. The quest to be cool: Didn’t it end with high school? Not according to “Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish,” a new personal essay series compiled by Shana Liebman, who’s an editor for Heeb, a magazine for…
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Culture pecan, rodef, clam
like any nut zipped up tight in its shell. like a clam’s clipped momser, the locked maw talked open by fire — by burly water waitressing flesh, flat as a tongue, to sterile plates. under fissures, a soft sloth, holy fruit, hare -lipped by cleavers, the devil’s hand. sweet meat of the tree. bone boy,…
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Culture Shout
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Culture A Drop in Distinction
‘How to Fall,” the third collection of tales by Edith Pearlman, winner of Sarabande Books’s Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, reads like the literary equivalent of a Broadway salute to established writers, ranging from American stars Cynthia Ozick and Nathan Englander to Israel’s lesser-known, but superb, Yehudit Hendel. To date, small presses have been…
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News A Journalist Turns the Lens on Her Life and Loves
Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir By Susan Shapiro Delacorte Press, 240 pages, $21.95. * * *| When journalists who have spent years telling other people’s stories turn the literary lens on their own lives, something interesting is bound to happen. In 1996, NPR commentator Marion Winik, at 37, walked a terra firma…
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