James Franco Q & A:  His Film on Tortured Gay Poet Hart Crane

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 15, 2011

Illuminating Tales of Modern Maccabees

By Gaby Friedman
Published on December 22, 2005

In Myra Goldberg's short story, "Who Can Retell," reprinted in the National Public Radio anthology, "Hanukkah Lights, Stories of the Season" (Melcher Media, 2005), a young girl is concerned that her school's holiday glee club is singling out all the Jewish students to sing Chanukah songs.

One Summer Night

By Morrie Gelman
Published on November 10, 2005

I dream of a summer night long ago. I'm a 17-year-old usher in a neighborhood theater. We play second-run films. Most of that summer we show "Pursued," starring Teresa Wright and Robert Mitchum.

First Person - Documenting Hate

By Daniel A. Olivas
Published on August 11, 2005

In late fall of 1999, I wrote a short story, "Summertime," which I eventually included in my collection, "Assumption and Other Stories" (Bilingual Press, 2003). When the book reviews started coming in, most noted that particular story's unsettling premise.

How Can Right, Left Each Be So Sure?

By David Margolis
Published on July 28, 2005

Some months ago, at a kind of evening salon in a settlement just south of Jerusalem, I read a short story I'd written to a group of friends and acquaintances.

Nadelson Writes It Short and Sweet

By Michal Lemberger
Published on June 10, 2004

"Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories," by Scott Nadelson (Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, $15.95).

Recently, a number of young Jewish writers have made successful entrées into the world of publishing. Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary Shteyngert, Dara Horn and others have published novels to critical acclaim, won prizes and, more importantly, audiences for their work.

As opposed to those writers, first-time author Scott Nadelson has chosen the short story as his form.

Festival Becomes Eclectic

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on November 4, 1999

Touch and Go

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on August 21, 1997

TV writer and CBS executive Eugene Stein exposes a darkerside in his latest book of fiction