Category: Books
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The Parable of the Sea Wall And Other Essays.
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As I close down my latest work, “Working Through the Holocaust,” and waiting for a read through by Jane as to what to save and what to delete, I received a message from David Herrle, Subtletea.com editor, in which he suggested he wanted to publish my blog, “Glut and Loathing in…
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Shoah Business: A Quick Exchange of E-mails
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About a year ago Jane and I met a Holocaust survivor whose name, for my purposes, will be Josef Vekkony. An author of a ghost-written book about his experiences during the Holocaust, he lectures around Henderson, Nevada and elsewhere. He is probably past seventy and is a retired businessman. Something…
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Sandpapering
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March and April have been good months for my writing. David Herrle, editor of Subtletea magazine, accepted a blog, which I revised, on first person writing (see it below). And when I sent him a copy of “Archipelago,” a perverse fantasy story, he accepted that as well. The story is…
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Freud in Auschwitz
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Jane suggested that I write about Freud’s possible take on the Holocaust. Exemplary idea! So I came up with the title you see above. I have not come up with a story. The self-fantasy is that it would make an avant garde or modernistic short story but the reality is…