Judith Podell

Blues for Beginners: Stories and Obsessions (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Written in a distinctive voice, with the soul and rhythm of the blues, Judith Podell's stories cover a range of obsessions that include the best of 20th Century angst: cigarettes, psychoanalysis, sex, love, death, and cats. Working in the same tradition of Woody Allen, Grace Paley and Nora Ephron, Podell's observations about life, love and loss would be heartbreaking if they weren't so funny. The title story, "Blues for Beginners," a riff on how to write the blues, struck such a familiar chord when it was originally published, it was instantly claimed by the world at large as something that belonged to all of us. Throughout the other nine stories, Podell continues to hit all the right notes -- bringing us characters we all might have known and situations we might have been in ourselves. If we'd been lucky enough to live in Greenwich Village in the 70s. Or Washington, DC in the 80s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 85
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780988877900
• Artikelnr.: 45445671

Autorenporträt

Judith Podell is a fiction writer, book critic and lapsed lawyer. Her earliest publication, a feminist satire of the popular pornographic movie "Deep Throat," appeared in the Village Voice in 1973. Since then her publications have include Mademoiselle, The New Guard Review, WordWrights, The Crescent Review and The Washington Post. An excerpt from Blues for Beginners was selected for the 2002 edition of Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor. The title story was nominated for a Pushcart Press Prize. She regularly reviews non-fiction for Publisher's Weekly and is a member of National Book Critics Circle.

Judith received an MFA from Stonecoast/University of Southern Maine. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Ragdale Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the District of Columbia Commission on Arts and Humanities. She regularly reviews non-fiction for Publisher's Weekly and is a member of National Book Critics Circle.

She lives in Washington, DC with writer Larry Specht and the mandatory two cats.