Being Heard

photo: Misterium: Poem of the Place, Lublin, TeatrNN

It's been an emotional and gratifying week, giving my first book talk on The Crooked Mirror, being interviewed by the wonderful Jack Miles at ALOUD (video, podcast to be posted soon) and receiving two deeply thoughtful and beautifully written reviews-- one by poet Piotr Florzck in the Los Angeles Review of Books (and thank God for LARB and the possibility of the existence, these days, of a long review) and the other by Rabbi Haim Beliak-- a mover and shaker in the cause of Jewish renewal in Poland-- in the Jewish Journal

So here are links to both reviews. Here's giving thanks to those who've already attended a reading or a talk... I've been buoyed by the response, the sense of a community eager to hear and talk about this work. There is so much need for reconciliation in so many parts of this planet, so many parts of our lives. I remember when "The Souvenir" came out in 2001, after 9/11, and when a young film development person told my agent, "No one wants to hear stories about reconciliation -- we're at war." Well, I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now.