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Story Evades Cogitation: An Interview with Cynthia Ozick

JL;DR SUMMARY In an insightful interview, Abraham Socher engages with renowned author Cynthia Ozick to explore her prolific writing career and her new collection, "In a Yellow Wood." 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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WritingPoetryFictionAuthorsCynthia OzickLiteratureRobert FrostEssaysLore SegalSidney Morgenbesser

Places mentioned

New Rochelle, New York, United States
"On my way to Cynthia Ozicks house in New Rochelle in the back of an Uber."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Once on a bus to Jerusalem we were in such heated contention that she stopped speaking to me for a time."
New York, United States
"A visit when you are in New York . . . would surely be a delight."
Bucharest, Romania
"and excited to see Balints essay on Norman Manea, but flinched when I took out my phone."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"I remember as a child sitting before the radio in the early 30s with my parents, listening to Father Coughlins rants."
Israel
"Israel battles the bloodthirsty tyrants of Iran."
Tehran, Fars, Iran
"but also worried about our place here in America, at least on campus. What would it take, do you think, to capture this moment in fiction, to dramatize the way we live now? OZICK: Worried about our place here in America. This is something new. Or is it? I remember as a child sitting before the radio in the early 30s with my parents, listening to Father Coughlins rants. They were savage and unrestrained, direct and unmistakable, with no veneer of dissemblance, la Tucker Carlson. And later there was Lindberghs charge that Jews who for reasons which are not American wish to involve us in the war, a cry we hear repeated at this very instant, even as Israel battles the bloodthirsty tyrants of Iran."
Rome, Italy
"This is the second instance of an invented circumstance turning out to be a fact in the real world."
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