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Ayelet Waldman

The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life: Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In and Lessons for Writers

Stephanie Vanderslice | Posted 04.12.2013 | Books
Read More: Downton Abbey, National Book Award, Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon, Sheryl Sandberg Lean In, Books News
Stephanie Vanderslice

After all, it takes a certain level of confidence to send something out, because even if it's wonderful, nine times out of ten, it's going to come back. Male writers I've known don't take this personally, they just send the work right back out there and guess what? Eventually it gets published.

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Jews Reveal Our Secrets to Controlling the Banks (VIDEO)

Nato Green | Posted 04.03.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Literature, Jews, Female Authors, Parenting, Mothers, Bay Area, Comic Books, Authors, Super Heroes, Comedians, Stereotypes, Jewish, Satire, Ayelet Waldman, Purim, San Francisco, Mort Sahl, Video, San Francisco News
Nato Green

To get the Jewish side of the story, I paid a visit to the Purim carnival at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center to hear from Jews in their natural habitat.

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Michael Chabon Reconnects

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.15.2013 | Arts
Read More: Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon, Kavalier and Klay, Reform Judaism, Maryland, Columbia, Ccar, Arts News
Tom Teicholz

Before the crowded room of gregarious, well-read rabbis from around the country, Kahn asked Chabon to narrate his own Jewish coming-of-age.

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Joe Satran

What The Failure Of 'The Corrections' Means For HBO

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 05.03.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Hbo Adaptations, Hbo the Corrections, Hbo Literary Adaptations, Video, Ayelet Waldman Hbo, Game of Thrones, Hbo, The Corrections Hbo, Ayelet Waldman, Hbo the Corrections Cancelled, Hbo Novels, Literary Adaptations, Jonathan Safran Foer, The Corrections, Entertainment News

On Tuesday, HBO made two announcements in the realm of acquisitions. The network said it would be producing "True Detective," a crime series based on ...

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What Could Be Coming To CBS This Fall

Garrett Greer | Posted 03.27.2012 | TV
Read More: The CW, Abc, Cbs, Fox, Nbc, Nick Pileggi, Fall Tv 2012 CBS, Elementary, Larry Dorf, Jonny Lee Miller, Baby Big Shot, Ayelet Waldman, Sherlock Holmes Show CBS, Dennis Quaid, The Widow Detective, Melissa Mccarthy, Lucy Liu, Ben Falcone, Ralph Lamb, Mira Sorvino, Louis C.K., Trooper, Fall TV 2012, Super Fun Night, The Mommy-Track Mysteries, Carrie Anne Moss, Rebel Wilson, Golden Boy, John Corbett, Spike Feresten, Michael Chiklis, Applebaum, Fall TV, TV News
Garrett Greer

CBS's programming is easy-to-digest and relies heavily on legal and law enforcement procedurals. What sort of material does CBS have to fill the soon-to-be-empty slots? More of the same.

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Inside This Place Not of It

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 01.07.2012 | Books
Read More: Inside This Place Not of It, Voice of Witness, Robin Levi, McSweeney's, Margaret Atwood, Books, Nonfiction, Ayelet Waldman, Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen, Books News
Meg Waite Clayton

Author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen have founded a nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books called Voice of Witness, meant to empower those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice.

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Michael Chabon Gave His Wife HPV, Or So She Tweeted

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 11.14.2011 | Home
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Much to the nervousness of anyone who's ever shared a secret with her, Ayelet Waldman, wife of talented novelist Michael Chabon, is still very much on...

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Why Putting Your Kids First May Be Killing Your Marriage

Vicki Larson | Posted 06.14.2011 | Divorce
Read More: David Code, Indulgences, Single Mothers, Good Parenting, Kate Winslet, Divorce, Shoshana Alexander, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Single Parents, Sacrifice, Ayelet Waldman, Helicopter Parents, Needs, Divorce News
Vicki Larson

It wasn't too many years ago that parents believed children should be "seen and not heard." Now they've become the center of our universe. But these h...

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Michael Chabon New HBO Project: Magicians Battling Hitler

Variety | CYNTHIA LITTLETON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Authors, Ayelet Waldman, Hobgoblin, Michael Chabon, Hitler, World War II, Hbo Project, Hbo, Books News

Scribe Michael Chabon and his wife, author Ayelet Waldman, have set up an offbeat drama project at HBO that revolves around a motley group of conmen a...

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HuffPost Review: The Other Woman

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Natalie Portman, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, The Other Woman, Toronto Film Festival, Ayelet Waldman, The Other Woman Movie Review, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Don Roos, Lisa Kudrow, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

After I saw The Other Woman at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2009 (when it was being called Love and Other Impossible Pursuits), I wrote that...

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'Impossible Pursuits' on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman

Katie Hafner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Read More: Natalie Portman, Ayelet Waldman, Sids, Katie Hafner, Stepparenting, Michael Chabon, Charlie Tahan, Don Roos, Natalie-Portman-the-Other-Woman, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, The Other Woman Ayelet Waldman, Divorce News
Katie Hafner

Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is ...

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I Hate It When Kids Get Hurt : The Grief Porn of Summer 2010

Nancy Doyle Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Chris Cleave, Pet Sematary, Red Hook Road, The Shining, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Nancy Meyers, Anna Quindlen, Little Bee, Every Last One, Ayelet Waldman, Roxana Robinson, Cost, David-Wroblewski Stephen King, Books News
Nancy Doyle Palmer

In college my friends and I used to love to watch Baretta ironically and wait for Robert Blake to shake his head and say "I hate it when kids get hurt...

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Go Ask Alice: Parents Will Screw Up No Matter How They "Parent"

Susan Weissman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Ayelet Waldman, Parenting, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Parenting Advice, Lisa Belkin, Free Range Kids, Healthy Living News
Susan Weissman

Even if you do "do your own thing" sometimes you will do it wrong and you will get anxious and sorry and angry because that is how it feels to be parent.

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A Modicum of Dr. Tiller's Courage

Ayelet Waldman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bill O'rielly, Abortion, Ayelet Waldman, Women's Rights, Michael Chabon, Women's Health, Tiller, Politics News
Ayelet Waldman

We kept the appointment. We had the abortion. It broke our hearts. The only thing worse would have been not to do it.

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Who's Your (Bad) Mother? Ayelet Waldman Takes On The Art of Mothering

Lisa Solod | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Children, Mother's Day, Sex, Bad Mothers, Mothering, Ayelet Waldman, Motherhood, Balancing Motherhood and Work, Mothers, Marlo Thomas, Healthy Living News
Lisa Solod

How about this Mother's Day we all give ourselves a break, pick up Ayelet Waldman's latest book, Bad Mother, put our feet up, eat some chocolate, and pat ourselves on the back.

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