The Whole Megillah- Mid-Week Field Notes–March 22, 2023Some very quick things: Have a good week!Barbara Krasner
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- 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Awards | Honey and Me by Meira DrazinHonor Book in Middle-Grade Category: Honey and Me by Meira Drazin (Scholastic, 2022, 304 pp.) The Whole Megillah (TWM): Mazel tov on your award! I’m so delighted to get to know you better.Meira Drazin (MD): Hi Barbara, thanks so much … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Author’s Notebook | The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty ZeldisZeldis, Kitty. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights. New York: HarperCollins, 2022. 345 pages. Writing the Past (WTP): What motivated you to write Dressmakers of Prospect Heights?Kitty Zeldis (KZ): I had long been interested in New Orleans, a place that figures importantly in … Continue reading →Barbara Krasner
- Mid-Week Field Notes–February 1, 2023Some very quick things: Have a good week!Barbara Krasner
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Monthly Archives: February 2018
On My Night Stand
This weekend I’m reading Elizabeth Rosner’s Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory (Counterpoint, 2017). I’m a big fan of memoir in general. Rosner addresses a return visit to Buchenwald with her father, who survived the camp … Continue reading
Mid-week Musing
Quote for the Week From Rich Michelson’s More Money Than God: Excerpt from “Another Holocaust Poem” VI. Burn everything after I’m dead, Kafka said, poking his prewar / Jewish head into yet one more of my poems. He’s trying to … Continue reading
New Friday Feature | On My Night Stand
Beginning Friday, February 9, The Whole Megillah introduces a new pre-Shabbos feature: On My Night Stand. This weekend I’m reading Albert Hepner’s memoir, Avrumele. I met Albert in the adjunct office of Mercer County Community College where I teach first-year … Continue reading
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2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour | Final Stop
You’ve now come to the final stop along the 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award blog tour, the culmination of a full week of insightful and inspiring award-winning author and illustrator interviews. Read about the blog tour and all 2018 Sydney … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018 sydney taylor book awards, alan gratz, almost autumn, antonio iturbe, chiara fedele, drop by drop a story of rabbi akiva, fawzia gilani-williams, Jacqueline Jules, jordana lebowitz, karla gudeon, katherine locke, language of angels, librarian of auschwitz, lilit thwaites, madelyn rosenberg, marianne kaurin, refugee, Richard Michelson, rosie hedger, susan krawitz, sydney taylor book award winner for older readers, sydney taylor book award winner for teen readers, sydney taylor book award winner for younger readers, Tammar Stein, the girl with the red balloon, the six-day hero, this is just a test, to look a nazi in the eye, viva rose, wendy shang, wendy wan-long shang, yaffa and fatima, yevgenia nayberg
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New Wednesday Feature | Mid-week Musing
Beginning Wednesday, February 7, The Whole Megillah introduces a new feature, Mid-week Musing. I’ll post some sort of Judaic quote each week that got me thinking. I hope it will get you thinking, too, and perhaps inspire some writing. Quote … Continue reading
Literary Offerings into the World | January 2018 Report
Not much activity this month while I get used to my semester teaching schedule. Poetry: I sent packets of poems to five journals (Fugue, Tin House Online, Cider Press Review, Poet Lore, and Poetry Magazine). I entered four poems in … Continue reading
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