Posts Tagged ‘ short stories ’

Zachary Solomon

Zachary Solomon
Zachary Solomon is a writer based out of Cambridge, Mass. He works for JewishBoston.com and will be pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing in the Fall.

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

April 9, 2013
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An armed man forces his way into the house of a man named Etgar Keret. He orders Keret, “Tell me a story.” But before Keret can rattle something off, there’s a knock at the door. And then another. Suddenly, Keret has 3 armed men in his home, pistols aimed at him,…

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Horror and Remembrance

February 21, 2012
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Herman Wouk is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Caine Mutiny, War and Remembrance (a thousand-page epic about World War…

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Great Jewish Bloggers of the 1920s

February 9, 2012
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Anzia Yezierska, the Jewish immigrant writer from Poland, is most famous for Bread Givers (1925), her tenement story…

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Breadcrumbs of the Past

February 6, 2012
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Until recently, Bram Presser was known as the…

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Literary Gymnastics

November 22, 2011
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Etgar Keret is one of the most versatile writers in Israel today.…

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The Things We Left Unsaid

November 11, 2011
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Moshe Zvi Marvit is an absorbing writer, the…

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Jewish Gauchos of Argentina

October 12, 2011
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Jewish Gauchos of Argentina

A town of Jewish immigrants, uprooted from czarist Russia to the Argentinian…

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Hasidim from Hell

September 7, 2011
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This is a short story about the craziest…

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David Sedaris’ Perfect Apartment

September 5, 2011
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Humorist David Sedaris has made a career out…

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Writing My Religion

February 28, 2011
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People who make the best CD mixes are…

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The Dead Call Collect

January 7, 2011
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What is Heaven? Is it a wondrous, otherworldly…

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