For @nytimesbooks, I wrote about @AdaCalhoun and her new book, Also a Poet, which started as a biography of Frank O’Hara— but became something else. https://t.co/LMwuclpyHg
So glad to have found this conversation with @caseyschwartz talking about her passionate father, Jonathan Schwartz whose radio voice was a fixture of my childhood - and well into my adulthood.
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We’re so very sorry to hear of the passing of the brilliant writer Steve Silberman. In 2018, we published his incredible piece about jazz pianist Bill Evans. You can read “Broken Time” here:
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Greatly looking forward to this event in Brooklyn with @caseyschwartz on June 13th. Friends living in New York or who happen to be there at the time, please come along! See https://t.co/XGCzCa2sBI to reserve a free ticket or message me if you have any queries.
A new memoir by Manjula Martin exposes the ways climate change will reach into the most personal recesses in our life, writes @caseyschwartz. https://t.co/O8PZRPr7dw
A new memoir by Manjula Martin exposes the ways climate change will reach into the most personal recesses in our life, writes @caseyschwartz. https://t.co/hbvSOAe07M
"Martin’s memoir is the first one I’ve read that centers this mission, these feelings and thoughts, this struggle with the great climate catastrophe of our time. I’m certain that it won’t be the last."
@caseyschwartz on @manjulamartin's memoir
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Powerful @caseyschwartz “I’m trying so hard to be the Palatable Jew,” a friend says to me. She is telling me this one morning as we stand in front of our synagogue, where, overnight, black graffiti has been sprayed all over the sidewalk” via @nytimesbooks https://t.co/rUBab8XrPn
“Here is a portrait of a man confronting a surging antisemitism he hadn’t known — or wanted to know — existed.” Casey Schwartz on reading Victor Klemperer’s diaries of Hitler’s Germany in 2023. https://t.co/xkoT5IH8UT
A biography of the great Chinese American actress Anna May Wong considers the epic sweep of her life -- and how it was shaped by the profound anti-Chinese sentiment of her day. https://t.co/N77Ippl3WU
Matthew Guterl’s parents wanted a family that embodied an integrated future, and adopted children from many backgrounds. The “experiment” — his father’s word — had painfully mixed results. In his memoir, “Skinfolk,” Guterl takes on his upbringing. https://t.co/MS6wQyCDsF
“I don’t see why everyone isn’t doing it. You are your own boss. You make your own hours. And you’re working with people’s fantasies.” https://t.co/CBNJkWCq8j
I reviewed Keiron Pim’s brilliant new biography of Joseph Roth for the Washington Post Book World. It’ll be in print this Sunday! @BookWorld @washingtonpost
It was a huge pleasure to write for @nthjohnwilliams https://t.co/pvo8bEdyvg
"The novel is an emotional artifact, a remnant of a world sick with foreboding, incredulity, creeping fear, and—this may feel most familiar to us today—the impossibility of gauging whether a society is really at the breaking point."
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