Isaac Bashevis Singer

Theater: "Shlemiel The First" Klezmer Musical Sings But What's With The Restraint?

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.15.2012

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Michael Giltz

SCHLEMIEL THE FIRST ** 1/2 out of **** NYU'S JACK H. SKIRBALL CENTER Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer helped popularize folk tales about the foolish men ...

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Exclusive Interview With Award-Winning Fiction Writer Richard Burgin

Anis Shivani | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Short Stories, Gloria Vanderbilt, Writing Workshops, Jorge Louis Borges, Short Story Writing, Novel Writing, Creative Writing Mfa, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin, Middlebrow Culture, Criticism, Boulevard Magazine, Books News
Anis Shivani

Richard Burgin has long been a mainstay in American literary circles, as five-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, editor for more than a quarter century of the award-winning journal Boulevard, and author of numerous critically acclaimed short story collections.

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

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Elana Estrin

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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A Jewish King And Queen Of England? It's Possible

Bernard Starr | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Earl Spencer, Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Prince William, Princess Diana, England, Deuteronomy, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish King of England, Sholem Aleicem, Kate Middleton, Sir James Goldsmith, Tefillin, Frances Shand Kydd, Jewish Queen of England, Religion News
Bernard Starr

What's the chance of running into two Jews at Buckingham Palace and discovering that they are the King and Queen of England? Some curious emerging facts suggest that it could happen.

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Stage Door: Behanding in Spokane, Sin, Lady Rizo

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lady Rizo, Entertainment, Martin McDonagh, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Christopher Walken, Broadway, Cabaret, Off-Broadway, Sam Rockwell, New York News
Fern Siegel

Martin McDonagh is famous for dark, bloody humor. The curtain opens in Lieutenant of Inishmore with a dead cat dripping blood and ends with bullet-rid...

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