
Field Notes
Some very quick things:
- Final Stretch! Comments on my dissertation have now come in on from all three readers. A diverse set of comments. I hope to get the next iteration of the dissertation out very soon. The title is now “Family, Survival, and Hope: The Persistence of Resistance and Rescue in North American Children’s Holocaust Literature, 1940-2020.”
- I’ll be presenting a version of the dissertation at the Association of Jewish Libraries conference on June 27.
- I attended the meeting of the Amherst Writers & Artists Northeast Chapter over the weekend where the focus was on turning memoir into fiction. We were given certain situations and we had to use an object from our writing desks. My object was a collage of my great-grandmother. My situation was a 75-year-old man unpacking in a Paris hotel. What fun this was! I haven’t written fiction prose in a while and now I can recall how much I like it.