by ta | Jan 2, 2008 | Surveys
“If you could invite any character(s) over for dinner, who would you choose?” that’s what we asked staff for the third part of our survey series. Here’s the guest list: Santiago – the Alchemist; Marilla Cuthbert – Anne of Green...
by ta | Jan 2, 2008 | Fiction
Sasha Goldberg, the main character in Anya Ulinich’s absurdly funny, coming-of-age novel, seems out-of-place just about everywhere. She’s a mixed-race, Jew living in a town in Siberia called Asbestos 2. Her only solace is in an after-school art program....
by ta | Dec 28, 2007 | Fiction, Non-fiction
Here’s a post from our resident pop-culture maven: Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes “The angst-ridden films of John Hughes remain vital viewing to a generation of writers old enough to have seen The...
by ta | Dec 18, 2007 | Surveys
Did you ever wish you could have picked out which books you were assigned to read in high school? To complement our list of books that staff hated reading in high school, we have a second list of books that staff wished they were assigned to read. We hope this...
by ta | Dec 12, 2007 | Fiction
For the Jews of Buenos Aires there is one cemetery, but a high wall gates off the members of the Benevolent Self (pimps and prostitutes) from the rest of the dead. Kaddish Posnan, the son of a whore, is the only descendant who thinks it is important to honor the dead...
