Word: eisenstadt
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This month, Ellis is joined in hot-young-writer circles by Jill Eisenstadt, Bennington class of '85 whose new novel Far Rockaway is getting the big push from publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Eisenstadt's book tells of the drinking and drowning bouts of lifeguards in "Rotaway," a seedy New York beach, and specifically of Alex, who escapes the sand and sea when she gets a scholarship from a New England college...
Which brings us to Eisenstadt herself, a Rockaway refugee who befriended Ellis while both were in writing workshops at Bennington. The pair have appeared on the Today show together, share a mentor (author Joe McGinnis) and both have set their novels in the imaginary campus of Camden (read: Bennington). But Eisenstadt resents the unavoidable comparisons between their work. "It's annoying because I don't think it's fair to either of the books, although I do like the guy a lot," she says of Ellis, while sitting and sipping water in her publisher's New York office, "We both...
...Neil has already lost two bids for the Sherriff's seat, running in 1974, and again in 1978 against Kearney. During his 1974 bid against Thomas S. Eisenstadt, one observer told The Boston Globe, "if O'Neil wins, he'll be the first sheriff in Massachusetts to call out a posse." That year O'Neil pledged to create a network of police informers throughout the city...
...clean up City Hall, Kearney says he will install an office of internal affairs--much like a similar department he says cleaned up a sheriff's office plagued by corruption in the mid-seventies. In fact, it was the resignation of then-sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt in 1977 due to charges of corruption and misuse of office that brought Kearney to the Suffolk Country Courthouse in the first place...