"All my writing was born out of anger. In order to contain it, I had to write. If I had not written, I would have exploded." - Elie Wiesel
via The Paris Review (on Twitter)
April 1, 2010
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- Sarah/Sara, by Jacob Paul (Fiction Writers Review, 2010)
- Every House Needs a Balcony, by Rina Frank (The Jewish Journal, 2010)
- Book of Clouds, by Chloe Aridjis (Fiction Writers Review, 2009)
- German for Travelers, by Norah Labiner (Jewish Book World, 2009)
- The Pale of Settlement, by Margot Singer (Kenyon Review Online, 2008)
- Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey Goldberg (Chattahoochee Review, 2007)
- Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland, and Vichy France, by Carmen Callil (Christian Science Monitor, 2006)
- Night, by Elie Wiesel; What Time and Sadness Spared, by Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar and Doron S. Ben-Atar; and Our Holocaust, by Amir Gutfreund (Review essay, Chattahoochee Review, 2006)
- Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky (The Missouri Review, 2006)
- The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism, by Walter Laqueur (JBooks.com, 2006)
- Kafka in Brontëland and Other Stories, by Tamar Yellin (JBooks.com, 2006)
- Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, by Marcie Cohen Ferris (The Forward, 2005)
- GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation, by Deborah Dash Moore (JBooks.com, 2004)
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2 comments:
Two comments - yes, writing is an excellent anger management tool. And, I'm going to see Elie Wiesel next week at the 92nd Street Y's lecture about the MS St. Louis.
Thanks for the comment, Barbara, and enjoy the event next week.
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