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Mines Vaters Liebling

Meines Vaters Liebling

(My Father's Darling, deutsche Übersetzung)

Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag (Nov. 2008)

 

This is the German tranlsation of Useful Gifts. Inter-related stories about a family in New York with deaf parents and hearing children.

Please see English version of Useful Gifts below for reviews:

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Die Geschichtenerzahler

Die Geschichtenerzähler

(The Storytellers, deutsche Übersetzung)

Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag (Apr. 2008)

 

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Swimming Toward the Ocean 

Swimming Toward the Ocean

New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Feb. 2001)

Reviews:

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Swimming Toward the Ocean

Herzweh

(Swimming Toward the Ocean, deutsche Übersetzung)

Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag (Nov. 2003)

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Useful Gifts

Useful Gifts

Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press (1989)

 

Inter-related stories about a family in New York with deaf parents and hearing children.

  • Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  • Selected by the New York Public Library as a 1989 Book to Remember
  • Nominated for the Harold U. Ribalow Award for Outstanding Jewish Fiction

Reviews:

Essays

Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female
ed. Willa Shalit
see Hyperion's web page for the book

Hyperion, 2006

"What Are You?"

Matzo Balls for Breakfast and Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish
by Alan King and Friends; Foreword by Larry King

Free Press, 2004

"Lurid Tales of a Chocoholic"

Eating Our Hearts Out (anthology)

Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1993

"American Sign Language: Help or Handicap to a Writer?"

Croton Review

Croton-on-Hudson, 1988 (winner of Essay Award)

Short Stories - in anthologies

"Plastic Flowers"

Her Face in the Mirror, ed. Faye Moskowitz

Boston: Beacon Press, 1994

"What My Mother Knows"

The Flannery O'Connor Award Selected Stories, ed. Charles East

Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1992

"Slice of Life"

American Fiction, ed. Michael C. White and Alan Davis

New York: Birch Lane Press, 1991

"My Father's Darling"

My Father's Daughter, ed. Irene Zahava

Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990

"Out of the Lion's Belly"

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, ed. Sandra Martz

Manhattan Beach: Papier Mâché Press, 1988

Short Stories - in literary magazines

"Traction"

Confrontation, #70/71

Brookville, NY: Long Island University, 2000

"Rehearsal"

Talking River Review

Lewiston: Lewis-Clark State College, Summer 1999

"My Last Table"

Women's Words

Maynard MA: Three Women Press, Winter/Spring 1999

"Pas de Deux"

Kansas Quarterly, Arkansas Review, Vol. 27, No. 2

State University, AR: ASU, 1996

"This Goldeneh Medina"

River Oak Review, #6

Oak Park, IL: River Oak Arts, Spring 1996

"The Other Marilyn"

The Ohio Review, #52

Athens, OH: Ohio University, 1994

"Dancing in the Dark"

Habersham Review, Vol. II, No. 2

Demorest, GA: Piedmont College, 1993

"Intersections, Wanda"

Modern Odysseys

Seattle: ARTP, 1992

"If You Think You're Mrs. Berrigan"

Caprice

Wichita: The Ancient Mariners, 1992

"This Close"

The Madison Review, Vol. 13, No. 1

Madison: University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1991

"Begin the Beguine"

ERGO!, Vol. 4

Seattle: Bumbershoot Festival, 1989

"What Could Be Missing?"

(reprint) Pandora, #25

Ferndale, MI: 1989

"My Father's Darling"

Crosscurrents, Vol. 8, No. 1

Westlake Village, CA: 1988

"In the Shadow of the Boardwalk"

West Wind Review, 6th Ed.

Ashland: Southern Oregon State College, 1987

"Leila's Revenge"

The Worcester Review, Vol. IX, No. 2

Worcester, MA: Worcester County Poetry Association, 1987

"My Second Favorite"

The William and Mary Review, Vol. 25

Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary, 1987

"Peola and Petunia"

Permafrost, #9

Fairbanks: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Winter, 1986-7

"What Could Be Missing?"

The Gamut, #19

Cleveland: Cleveland University, 1986

Plays

"The Challenge"

New Plays for Mature Actors, ed. Bonnie L. Vorenberg

ArtAge Publications (orig., Coach House Press, 1987)

Performed by over 200 groups in USA, Canada and Australia.

Poems

"Under Overcast Skies, Perpetual Twilight"

Mediphors

Bloomsburg, PA: 1997

"In Quest of Complexity"

Israel Horizons

New York: 1992

"Good for Deaf"

Fan

New York: 1991

"On a Friend's Dying of A.L.S."

The Widener Review, 5

Chester, PA: Widener University, 1988

"Interjection"

Phoenix, Vol. VII, i

Talequah, OK: Northeastern State University, 1987

"Love Witch"

South Coast Poetry Journal

Fullerton, CA: California State University, Fullerton, 1987

Miscellaneous

"Who's to Blame?"

a musical-satirical revue performed in Seattle, 1993

"Everyone's Running, Why Not Me?"

a musical-satirical revue performed in Seattle, 1991

"Name of the Game"

screenplay, optioned by Twentieth Century Fox, 1984