The Last One Way
Fifty-four-year-old Gitta Floog tries to get the matchmaker who arranged her unhappy marriage thirty-six years before to undo it by claiming that she is pregnant with another man’s child. But although...
View ArticlePeep Show
Excerpt from a story to be printed in a future issue, about a visit to a Times Square peep show... Allen Fein is on his way to Port Authority when he stubs his toe and scuffs his shoe—puts a nick in a...
View ArticlePeep Show
A young Jewish lawyer stops in a Forty-second Street peep show and, in his guilty panic, sees his former rabbis, therapist, mother, and pregnant wife on the stage. On his way to Port Authority, Allen...
View ArticleFree Fruit for Young Widows
When the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of the Suez Canal, threatening Western access to that vital route, an agitated France shifted allegiances, joining forces with Britain and...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
They’re in our house maybe ten minutes and already Mark’s lecturing us on the Israeli occupation. Mark and Lauren live in Jerusalem, and people from there think it gives them the right.See the rest of...
View ArticleStories That Will Plain Curl Your Eyelashes: A Love Letter to the Moth
I can trace it back to the beginning for you, trace my Moth addiction to its start. For the uninitiated, the Moth is an organization devoted to the craft of storytelling. It’s real people telling true...
View ArticleStill-Life of Nora, with Almond Cake
I don’t stop missing Nora Ephron. I keep reading the beautiful remembrances, and, as the days go by, I just want to join the chorus of voices paying tribute and tell you why I admired her so much. Nora...
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