by epollack | Jan 12, 2010 | Blog
This is the only known photo of my family’s hotel, other than the photo of the dining room I uploaded to this blog last year. Amazing that in all the years we owned Pollack’s, no one thought to take a picture. Then again, everyone was too busy working...
by epollack | Jun 3, 2009 | Blog
Recently, I was pleased to learn that IN THE MOUTH was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize, and last week I found out that the collection was awarded a silver medal in Foreword Magazine’s Best Books of 2008 contest.
by epollack | May 2, 2009 | Blog
I hope you will pardon my immodesty, but I am going to post the text of the speech given by Mark Shechner, one of the judges of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, which I won this year for IN THE MOUTH. I read this whenever I get too depressed to sit down at the computer...
by epollack | Feb 3, 2009 | Blog
Marian took me to the auto show in Detroit, just as the show was closing, and as we wandered the gigantic convention floor full of gleaming sports cars, adorable electric putt-putts, and trucks whose tires stood taller than my head, I couldn’t help but wonder...
by epollack | Jan 11, 2009 | Blog
And another nice piece of news… In the Mouth has just been selected as a finalist for the Sophy Brodie Medal, awarded by the American Library Association to an author whose work represents “the most distinguished contribution to Jewish literature for...
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