Oddsmakers are favoring Can Xue and Jon Fosse for the Nobel Prize for literature. But there's a strong argument that it should go to @iraglass at @ThisAmerLife. And @TalyaZax at @jdforward is pretty convincing in making that argument. https://t.co/QugK1C79C9
So looking forward to @TheNYFF this weekend. @pjgrisar of @jdforward helped me get some of the anticipation out a few days ago. A real treat to get to talk about all this!
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This tour-de-force of narrative nonfiction, archival research, and public-service journalism is the product of a year of work from @ASilversteinNY, @rudoren, Chana Pollack and countless others from the past and present of @jdforward.
@jdforward My article on the Forward’s “Seeking Relatives” took a year and a village.
Thanks to archivist Chana Pollack for research and translation, editors @rudoren and @Adam_Langer, and Matthew Littman for graphics.
@yadvashem for materials. And Isaac Metzker:
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Murray’s Cheese has a new logo. Notice it says “Est. 1962.”
Two years ago, I bunked their origin myth and 1940 founding date for @jdforward
Feels good!
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Migrants are staying within blocks of the hotels where Jewish refugees first rested their heads after years in ghettos, concentration camps, and DP camps.
I spoke with postwar Jewish refugees including @joeberg and recent refugees for @jdforward
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R.I.P. Ralph Lee, the puppeteer behind one of the Upper West Side's greatest annual events — the "Procession of Ghouls" at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine. https://t.co/H6JZOH1589
@laurenmechling Just a polite and concise email or letter with as little BS as possible. Bonus points for indicating a deadline that preferably isn't the day after tomorrow.