Blog Feed: Needle in the Bone

Our local paper, the Lawrence Journal-World, ran a story in remembrance of Lou today. Check it out here. I was very moved by so many comments from readers who deeply valued Lou’s teaching, activism and presence in our community. > read more

For the Love of Lou Frydman: July 1, 1930 – January 24, 2012

Published on 2012-01-25 09:34:34

All last night I thought about Lou, waking between my dreams to wonder if he was still alive, feeling that sense of Lou-ness surrounding me. His voice is vivid to me (especially his laughter), and no wonder since I have dozens of hours of interviews with him and many years of hearing his stories of [...] > read more

Needle in Bone to be Published!

Published on 2011-12-14 12:32:29

I’m very happy to announce that Potomac Books, a wonderful press that specializes in history and political science, will be publishing Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other. Big thanks to my agent, Neil Salkind, who believed so much in this book, and [...] > read more

Remembering the Veterans and Those They Liberated

Published on 2011-11-11 23:35:45

Lou’s daughter-in-law Laurie reminded me on facebook today about how veterans — such as Jarek and so many others — are also to be honored for those they saved today. Check out this article from a few years back in our local paper about Lou, and this one about Lou and an American soldier in [...] > read more

The Book is Done (Mostly, Kind Of, Pretty Much)

Published on 2011-10-13 11:29:35

After an open arm’s length of Holocaust books, a pile that would tower over my cat of Holocaust movies, dozens of hours of interviews, and over 700 pages of transcripts from those interviews — not to mention four years of work — the Holocaust book is done……mostly, kind of, pretty much. I add those qualifiers [...] > read more

Another Good Holocaust Movie: Steal a Pencil

Published on 2011-09-17 22:29:07

Last night, I saw a very good Holocaust movie about an usual situation best summed up in this statement made by a Dutch Jew named Jack Pollak: “I’’m a very special Holocaust survivor. I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend; and believe me, it wasn’t easy.” Turns out that Jack and [...] > read more

Yoga, Suffering & the Holocaust: An Interview With Joshua Greene

Published on 2011-08-30 09:28:43

Several months ago, I had the pleasure to interview Joshua Greene who is an expert in the Holocaust, Yoga philosophy and Hinduism, and filmmaking. His eclectic publications include Gita Wisdom (on the Bagavad Gita), Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, and Witness: Voices of the Holocaust, and his films [...] > read more

The Facts of the Matter

Published on 2011-08-18 12:38:33

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be going through the manuscript sentence by sentence, checking little facts of history against my research and against comments Lou and Jarek have given me to make sure I’m as accurate as possible. If I think of the thousands of spinning facts filling this book — from the number [...] > read more

The Transformative Power of Our Stories

Published on 2011-06-28 14:49:05

How we see the stories of our lives, as my work researching and writing Needle in the Bone keeps showing me, have everything to do with what capacity we have to make good with the materials life gives us. I recently was interviewed by Katharine Hansen’s excellent blog, A Storied Career, on the transformative power [...] > read more

So What Does Goodness Have to Do With All This?

Published on 2011-06-18 22:00:47

My good friend, writer Diane Silver, is exploring goodness. Through her blog, In Search of Goodness, she’s writing everyday — starting June 1 — on various ways to know, question and investigate what’s good and what’s not. She interviewed me recently, and because I discussed this book as well as some thoughts I have on [...] > read more

This is Maura: A Memorial Poem

Published on 2011-01-29 21:56:09

Today at Maura’s funeral and the Irish wake that followed, Maura seemed to be everywhere, threading through conversations, smack in the center of story after story, and in the synapses between jokes and punchlines. She was also shot through this po > read more

Missing Maura

Published on 2011-01-25 22:38:31

As soon as I heard Jane’s voice say my name on the phone this morning, I knew it was bad news, and what I knew was true: Maura had died Monday evening just after brushing her teeth. I sat on my bed and stared at the blankets for a long time. In > read more

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