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...didn’t it all work great,’ but looking forward, there was all kinds of angst,” Whitman says of her career.When she was asked to join the CEA as a full-fledged member, Whitman cried into her pillow for many nights. Her husband, who had taken a sabbatical for her, was slated to chair Pittsburgh’s English department, and the two didn’t want to commute. “There’s no question that at that point in my life I would’ve turned...
...camera. It took me six months to make that tape! I was like, I can't do it, I can't talk to a camera, I'm too shy. They whole reason I wanted to be a chef was because chefs never came out of the kitchen. My husband said, we don't have to tell anybody, just do it. So I finally did. It's gotten much easier...
...recalls Katin's mother, Esther Levy, who takes care of two-year-old Miriam alone in Nazi-occupied Budapest while her husband fights in the Hungarian army. The book opens with the urbane and middle class Esther sharing coffee with her best friend, discussing how the Nazi death trap was closing in. "I received an order to hand over the dog today," she says, as Miriam feeds ice cream to little Rexy. First denied their pets, the Jews of Budapest are soon commanded to leave behind all their possessions and report to the ghetto. Hearing rumors of round-ups from...
...Between these scenes of grey-toned horror we witness flashes of Miriam's life, decades later, fleshed out in full color. Her son has reached the age of being entered into Hebrew school and Katin struggles with whether to send him, "to be with our own kind," as her husband says. "You mean to separate. Again," she replies. These flash-forwards reveal the lasting effect on Miriam, who barely remembers any of the events depicted in the book. For her, leading a purely secular life is the only answer to the atrocities she and her mother experienced...
...Brothers Karamazov" and searched it for references to a minor character called Marfa Ignatyevna, in order to add some texture to a discussion of the small but significant town of Marfa, Texas, a place supposedly named after this woman who "obeyed...yet...pestered" her "honest and incorruptible" husband. Having an active text version of the novel - which I also owned and knew - provided me with one of those extremely rare moments of pleasure, clarity, and completion in the act of writing, when the puzzle of an idea clicks firmly into place with words on the page. I searched, I found...