Archive for January, 2008

Now! Featuring! The Reverse Blurb-o-meter!

20 January 2008

A friend of mine discovered Judy Budnitz’s writing because he read and loved Matthew Derby’s Super Flat Times, which has a blurb from her that reads: “Matthew Derby’s writing is a refreshing shock to the system. Read it and be entranced, enchanted, transported. He is truly one of a kind.” So my friend read her [...]

Brooklyn Jews

6 January 2008

Emily’s essay “Eli Miller’s Seltzer Delivery Service,” which is in the Brooklyn Was Mine anthology, being not just about our favorite, and greatly missed, borough, but also about Yiddishkeit—and a little bit about our shared obsessiveness with doing what we can to make our home more green—has also been published at Nextbook.