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Interview | Tova Mirvis

JL;DR SUMMARY Tova Mirvis, a novelist captivated by the 2014 murder of a Tallahassee law professor implicated in a custody battle, channels this real-life crime into her fictional work, "We Would Never." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityFamily DynamicsFictionEmpathyMurderMoral ComplexityTova MirvisTrue CrimeCustody BattleImaginative Empathy

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Tallahassee, Florida, United States
"She read every news article she could find about the murder-for-hire of the Tallahassee law professor whose ex-wifes family was ultimately implicated in his death."

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