Tag Archives: Erika Dreifus

September 2022 Jewish Book Carnival

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! The Jewish Book Carnival is a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere. Sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries, it is hosted … Continue reading →

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Mid-Week Notes

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Barbara Krasner

Three quick things this week: My short story, “The Last Survivor,” will be featured in a public reading on August 18, 7 pm EDT, hosted by Press 53. The story about the last Holocaust survivor who returns to Prague to … Continue reading →

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Poet’s Notebook | Birthright by Erika Dreifus

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Barbara Krasner

Dreifus, Erika. Birthright: Poems. American Fork, Utah: Kelsay Books, 2019. 86 pp., $17.00. The Whole Megillah (TWM): What motivated you to create a poetry collection? Erika Dreifus (ED): I’m not at all certain that it’s something I set out to … Continue reading →

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August 2018 Jewish Book Carnival

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: At Life Is Like a Library, Chava Pinchuck looks at some books that are appropriate for the month of Elul, a time … Continue reading →

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March 2018 Jewish Book Carnival

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: Chava Pinchuck spoke with Yael Levy about romance novels and social commentary. Over on My Machberet, Erika Dreifus routinely curates pre-Shabbat Jewish-lit links. Here’s … Continue reading →

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March 2017 Jewish Book Carnival

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: Deborah Kalb interviews a variety of authors on her website, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb. She recently interviewed Sarah Kaminsky about her book … Continue reading →

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June 2016 Jewish Book Carnival

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: From Shiloh Musings, Batya Medad reviews Witness to History by Sybil Kaplan. Medad calls it an amazing book of modern Israeli history … Continue reading →

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In the Spirit of Poetry Has Value

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Barbara Krasner

Inspired by Erika Dreifus and her guest blogs at Jessica Piazza’s Poetry Has Value, I decided to track my literary submissions—or offerings, if you prefer—on a monthly basis. Sure, I’d been tracking them in Excel, but I wasn’t really look … Continue reading →

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Author’s Notebook | Erika Dreifus, Quiet Americans: Stories

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah (TWM): Why write short stories vs. longer forms? Erika Dreifus (ED): For me, the question is formulated slightly differently. I’ve always wondered what, for instance, made F. Scott Fitzgerald realize that “Babylon Revisited” was meant to be … Continue reading →

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January 2015 Jewish Book Carnival

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Barbara Krasner

The Whole Megillah is pleased to once again host the monthly Jewish Book Carnival! Here are this month’s links: The Fig Tree Books blog reflects on diversity within American Jewish literature. On My Machberet, Erika Dreifus looks back on her year in Jewish books. … Continue reading →

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