The Extra

Book Review: A. B. Yehoshua’s “The Extra” — A Genius for Dissecting Family Matters

This canny writer is concerned with the kind of complicated family relationships that engaged his Jewish literary forebears.

Richard Magahiz September 20, 2021 at 8:27 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)I too was a very big fan of Nanci's. In the very early days of the Web I was part...
Nicole Veneto September 20, 2021 at 8:00 pm on Film Feature: A Dispatch from Boston’s Last Video Rental StoreOh my goodness, young Gen-X'ers are people who are newly in the forties., born between 1977 and 1983 presumably. I...
Daniel Gewertz September 20, 2021 at 7:48 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)Thank you, Marcia. I think she hoped she would reach people as intimately as she did with you.
Daniel Gewertz September 20, 2021 at 7:45 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)No insight. Hard to imagine. I do know that Nanci Griffith left instructions for people not to write anything for...
Daniel Gewertz September 20, 2021 at 7:41 pm on Music Remembrance: Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)Thanks, Shannon. Do you know her early song "Working in Corners"? I think of it sometimes when I am working...