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Penny Metsch Penny Metsch, MLS, formerly a school librarian on Long Island and in New York City, now focuses on early literacy programs in Hoboken, NJ. Reviews Articles Fiction The Polish Boxer Eduardo Halfon; Hahn, Brock, Dillman, Bunstead, McLean, trans. Nonfiction Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art Gene Wilder Fiction Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn Leslie Epstein Nonfiction Fire and Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition Anna Lanyon Fiction The Prophet of Tenth Street: A Novel Tsipi Keller Fiction Berlin Cantata Jeffrey Lewis Nonfiction Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hughes’ Doomed Love Yehuda Koren; Eilat Negev Nonfiction The Mistress’s Daughter A.M. Homes Nonfiction Kafka and Cultural Zionism: Dates in Palestine Iris Bruce Fiction Vivaldi’s Virgins Barbara Quick Fiction One More River Mary Glickman Fiction Dearest Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love Judith Katzir; Dalya Bilu, trans. Fiction The Pathseeker Imre Kertesz; Tim Wilkinson, trans. Fiction You or Someone Like You Chandler Burr Fiction A Quilt of Dreams Patricia Schonstein Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Next page ›› Interview Interview: Jessica Soffer Penny Metsch April 29, 2013
Nonfiction Fire and Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition Anna Lanyon
Nonfiction Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hughes’ Doomed Love Yehuda Koren; Eilat Negev