New Short Stories!
My Father's Darling (from Useful Gifts), anthologized in Outcasts and Angels, The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature; Edna Edith Sayers, Editor (GU Press). Authors in this volume include Isak Dinesen, Nadine Gordimer, Joanne Greenberg, Julian Barnes, and Sayers' essay, "Reading Deaf Characters."
The Daughters, published in Hospital Drive, Issue 7, Winter/Spring 2012 by the University of Virginia School of Medicine
Love Knots, published in Common Knowledge (Spring, 2011) by Duke University Press.
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Useful Gifts (paperback)
University of Georgia Press; Reprint edition (October 1, 2010)
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
Praise for the book:
- “A wonderfully evocative debut collection … An understated, pitch-perfect prose style and a view of childhood … as dark and comic as it is moving.” - Voice Literary Supplement
- “The world of Ruthie Zimmer, youngest child of Jewish deaf parents, is captured with aching authenticity. … The stories are redolent of a New York neighborhood that once was.” - Publishers Weekly
- “When Ruthie Zimmer translates … the world of the deaf is not at all silent; it’s bursting with life and conversation.” - New York Times Book Review
- “Glickfeld displays a gift for characterization, particularly when describing the abusive, miserly father whom Ruthie can neither love nor abandon. Stylish nostalgia is tempered with humor and hard-boiled realism.” - Library Journal
- “Ruthie is the kind of direct yet reflective girl who might have emerged from the pages of J.D. Salinger.” - Boston Woman
- “Wonderful sad, funny stories about New York street life and growing up in a handicapped family.” - Bloomsbury Review
- “Deft and darkly funny.” - 7 Days
- "New in paperback: 11 interrelated stories about the mystery of childhood, from the perspective of a child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s. Glickfeld is a Seattle writer and teacher. These stories won the 1989 Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction." - Seattle Times, May 2, 2011
Links to more reviews:
Download the Press Release flyer from University of Georgia Press.
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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 Geschichtenerzähler
(The Storytellers, deutsche Übersetzung)
Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag (Apr. 2008)
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Swimming Toward the Ocean
New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Feb. 2001)
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Herzweh
(Swimming Toward the Ocean, deutsche Übersetzung)
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag (Nov. 2003)
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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
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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
"Talking Mama-Losh’n"
A Day's Pay
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2020
"Fort Arden"
Down on the Sidewalk
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2020
"Useful Gifts"
Rituals to Observe
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2019
"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 of Bureaucracy"
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
"On Chagalls’s Green Violinist, I"
"On Chagalls’s Green Violinist, II"
Ekphrasis, Fall/Winter 2018
"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