Attended a lovely zoom yesterday. Presented by the journal Jewish Renaissance, Executive Director Aviva Dautch chaired the evening which was to promote the current issue of the journal, and then to celebrate the publication in English of a hitherto undiscovered story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Editor Rebecca Taylor and Aviva Dautch make a dynamic team, […]
This last year I have been having regular skype meetings with my sisters in Israel. Judith lives on a moshav, a few kilometres from the border with Gaza. Naomi lives in Jerusalem, in the same block of flats, on the same floor in fact that our late parents lived – our father until his death […]
Two shadows seem to have been lifted this week. Donald Trump has left Washington and gone back to Florida, and Jo Biden and Kamala Harris do not send me into a state of discomfort, fear, trembling, the way Trump did. I have actually always been afraid of the glitzy inauguration of American presidents. I think […]
Could Ten Letters be a good title for my new novel? It does feature ten letters, so perhaps yes. I started it on October 2nd and ran with it, until stopped in my tracks by two things. One, the interest of previously mentioned small independent publisher in my story collection. The other? The nice news […]
I have read Astral Travel, by Elizabeth Baines. To say I enjoyed it would not be quite accurate, as it is a serious account of the narrator`s abusive childhood. One of those accounts where I say to myself – if only half of these awful stories are true, it`s evident that these are sad and […]
The weeks go by, whether or not we are in lockdown, or a tier or whatever. Some aspects of the general slowdown of our lives have actually left me feeling pretty relaxed. In recent weeks I have embarked on a new novel, and to date it is going well. The characters are clear and known […]
I binge-watched the last two episodes of Mike Bartlett`s `Life` at the weekend. After it was over felt as if I had been out for a huge meal, and needed hours in which to digest what I had absorbed. 4 flats in a big old house, somewhere like Walley Range, Manchester. A grieving widower, played […]
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Such a mixed couple of days. I completed several tasks that needed completing, and rejoined The Writers` Guild, and our vacuum cleaner broke, and we became reglued to the TV, just like in March and April, to see where Covid is now leading us. Our oldest grandson is starting university – we have no idea […]
The last couple of weeks, I have had lots of things to think about. Almost ready to name the independent American publisher who tells me he wants to publish `Shula,` my short story collection. I have rejoined The Writers` Guild in honour of this happening. My story `Words` is due to appear on the website […]