Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
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Owl and the City of Angels
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Owl and the Japanese Circus
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Song of a Captive Bird
Forugh Farrokhzad was a Persian poet who died at 32 after having authored four books of poetry and made a documentary film about how lepers are treated. Darznik imagines Farrokhzad's life, sticking to the outline of events like Farrokhzad's marriage, divorce, publications, hospitalization, and death, but creating a lot of the in-between.
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Writing Menopause: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction
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Zines as Creative Resistance panel at CUNY Graduate Center
I'm on the Zines as Creative Resistance panel at the CUNY Graduate Center. I have 3-5 minutes to introduce myself.
It me:
Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here
I read this book because a Barnard Women's & Gender Studies grad is the author's sister. And also, I read YA like a mofo. Breslaw's voice is witty and true, which I know because I work with college students and lurk in their Facebook groups.