Upcoming Events
November 2024
LOOKING BACK: CHOICES & CONSEQUENCES – MEMOIR
FRANCINE PROSE’s political coming-of-age tale 1974: A Personal History is framed around her relationship with activist Tony Russo – indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon papers – and the disturbing and dramatic end of that relationship. Consent: A Memoir explores JILL CIMENT’s decadeslong marriage to a 47-year-old married man she met when she was 17, and her reassessment of their improbable but blissful marriage that lasted until her husband’s death 45 years later.…
IN THE HOLOCAUST’S SHADOW, IS THERE STILL LIGHT? – FICTION & NONFICTION
KEREN BLANKFELD’s Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story is a remarkable saga about Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia, who fell in love in Auschwitz, were separated upon liberation, led extraordinary lives apart following the war, and then found each other more than 70 years later. Inspired by historical events, LAUREN GRODSTEIN’s We Must Not Think of Ourselves: A Novel is the story of an underground group of archivists who fought to preserve humanity inside the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.…