Some Occasional Essays: I have written many lectures, which I don’t generally post, as I tend to reword and rewrite as I deliver them; but occasionally I am asked to contribute an essay to a publication. Here is a small sampling:
Maurice Sendak’s Yiddish Heart
May 12, 2012
From Celebrating Sendak, a special edition of Hunger Mountain published in June.
Jews and Blacks: Getting out the Vote
JBooks; October 31, 2008
Written In response to the New York Times article that Jews in the swing state of Florida would never vote for a black man.
Stompin’ at the Savoy: A picture-book writer learns the identity-politics dance
Tablet; April 26, 2006
What are the benefits and pitfalls of writing outside of your racial, and cultural experience?
From Cold Feet to Happy Feet
Publishers Weekly; November 20, 2006
What to do when the comedian Robin Williams steals my book title!
Man Gives Birth! Three times!
Author’s Guild; April 2009
About watching my books grow up and leave home.
Marlo and Me at Book Expo America
Publishers Weekly BEA Show Daily; June 2007
OK. It’s really about my crush on Marlo Thomas
Leonard, Ted (and Me)
This essay about poetry, art, Leonard Baskin and Ted Hughes was commissioned by the South Carolina Review
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