Word: jill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...meet Jill Eisenstadt, however, is to be underwhelmed, and this is not an insult. She seems astonishingly normal and low-key, the kind of person who claims she previously couldn't even answer questions at interviews. Despite her Irish-looking face, she says, "I'm really Jewish, even though I don't look...
...Jill Eisenstadt hopes that unlike From Rockaway, the second novel will stand on its own binding. "I don't mean to sound defensive," she says at the end of our interview. "But that's the thing--people are always making me defensive about the book when it's supposed to speak for itself without you having to defend it to people. And that makes you feel like you really failed as a writer, because people aren't understanding...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...
...Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Sherry Pierson, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss, William Yusavage...