I was startled when friends started emailing me to tell me that they were listening to me on NPR’s “Here & Now” the other day. I had no idea I would be on. I had done an interview for WBUR with Meghna Chakrabarti a week or two earlier and it somehow ended up on the national show. Meghna was incredibly well-prepared and asked great questions–we had a lot of fun talking.
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Eileen’s new essay collection, Maybe It’s Me, appeared on January 25, 2022. Publisher’s Weekly and LitHub heralded the launch as one of their most anticipated books of the month; the book received rave reviews from PW, Kirkus, and the Forward.
Eileen will be talking about the book with Cheryl Pearl Sucher, via McNally Jackson Bookstore, on Thursday, January 27, at 7 PM.
Eileen will be reading in NYC on Monday, July 25, 2022, at 8 PM, as part of the Scribblers on the Roof series at Ansche Chesed, 251 W 100th St … and yes, the event takes place on the roof! She will be appearing with her friend and former colleague, the brilliant Yiddish scholar Anita Norich.
Eileen also will be reading (and selling copies of her books) on Saturday, August 13, at the Watertown Arts Market in Arsenal Park in her new hometown, Watertown, MA. The art fair takes place between noon and 5 PM … Eileen’s (brief) reading will begin at 1 PM, after which she will emcee the readings by her fellow Watertown writers.
She will also be reading on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, at 7:30 PM, at the JCC in Cherry Hill, NJ.
Eileen is excited to be appearing at the RANCHO MIRAGE LITERARY FESTIVAL (CA) February 2023, where she will be interviewed by Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times. Details at http://www.rmwritersfest.org/writers/
I’m so glad I heard you on “Here and Now”. Your experience at Yale in the 70s, reminded me of my experience at Princeton in the 90s.
You described the isolation of being the only woman, not part of the guy’s study groups, and said you left feeling like a failure.
I lived those words! Leaving Princeton with a Masters degree while my male cohort all went on to get their PhDs, and feeling like a failure for the next 20 years.