Merav Fima
Merav Fima reviews 'The Writer Laid Bare: Mastering emotional honesty in a writer’s art, craft and life' by Lee Kofman
Reading craft manuals may be another mode of procrastination for aspiring writers, but Lee Kofman’s latest book, The Writer Laid Bare, is well worth the time. Her sage advice, interwoven with an intimate account of her own creative development as a migrant writer, makes fascinating reading.
... (read more)Merav Fima reviews 'The Penguin Book of Migration Literature' edited by Dohra Ahmad
‘Exile is a profound stimulus to the human anxiety for literary representation,’ writes Harold Bloom. Whether voluntary or involuntary, this impetus is the driving force behind the works in The Penguin Book of Migration Literature.
... (read more)Merav Fima reviews 'Sing This at My Funeral: A memoir of fathers and sons' by David Slucki
Sing This at My Funeral is not your conventional ghost story. Invoking Franz Kafka’s words, ‘Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts, and by no means just the ghost of the addressee but also with one’s own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing or even in a whole series of letters’, this moving memoir by David Slucki gives shape to the ghost of Zaida Jakub, the grandfather he never knew.
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