Monday, November 2, 2015

The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir by Maxine Kurmin 2015

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"'The Pawnbroker's Daughter'" is not a posthumous volume of poems (though she draws from her work throughout), but a...
Monday, October 5, 2015

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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by: A Memoir of Food and Longing Anya Von Bremzen 2013 "This poignant memoir is an education in t...
Monday, September 7, 2015

Can’t we talk about something more PLEASANT: A Memoir by Roz Chast 2014

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"'But the concept of . . .being happy’ — that was for modern people or movie stars. I.e., degenerates' Chast’s mother exclaim...
Monday, August 3, 2015

My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War by Anne Sinclair 2014

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"...[Sinclair] tells the story of her grandfather’s life thematically, reassembling it from several vantage points. And in telling that...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by Glenn Kurtz 2014

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"Every act of preservation, Kurtz observes, is only temporary, 'a brief swirl in the relentless flow of dissolution.' Eventuall...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind by Sarah Wildman 2014

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"The book weaves together the historical with the intensely personal, redefining what counts as appropriate archival material and eleva...
Monday, May 4, 2015

The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace by Alexander Stille

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"It is Mr. Stille’s determination to use his skills as a reporter to flesh out his family’s history that lends this book its depth of f...
Monday, April 6, 2015

The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction by David Weiss Halivni 1996

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"Halivni's book is surprisingly rich and resonant . . ." from a review by Jonathan Kirsch in the Los Angeles Times 10/16/1996 ...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (a novel) published in 1947, published in English in 2010, translated by Damion Searles

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"... [T]his is entirely attributable to Keilson's artistry, knowing the small details, having a sense of the house where Nico is be...