Alan Kaufman's Reviews
Reviews of Alan’s Work
Feb.10.2012
Published by Publishers Weekly
"Whether the subject is parental abuse, alcoholism, or the travails of the writing life, Kaufman’s (Jew Boy; Matches) memoir violently grabs your attention, refusing to let up...
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Feb.10.2012
Published by Evergreen Review
"In passage after passage, we see the truths of the heart are hard won; and this, the psychic searching that is behind every emotion rendered, accounts for the book’s explosive...
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Published by MARKET WATCH
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Alan Kaufman is on a mission.
The San Francisco-based writer and poet is being reviled by some in the tech industry, where he is trying to draw...
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Oct.01.2005
Published by BOOKLIST
From Booklist
Nathan Falk is an American expatriate serving in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). His unit is repeatedly called up to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The soldiers...
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Oct.23.2008
Published by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
From Publishers Weekly
The title is an Israeli army term for a soldier, or one who "strikes, burns, and dies." Nathan Falk, an American-born Jew and the son of a Holocaust...
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Sep.10.2000
Published by Front Page San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Alan Kaufman is a survivor. It took him nearly half a century to realize it.
As a kid, he believed ``there was no difference between a victim and a survivor,'' he writes in his...
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Feb.22.2000
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
For Alan Kaufman, the late San Francisco vagabond wordsmith Jack Micheline represented the true spirit of poetry.
``He would beg destiny for a break,'' recalls Kaufman, shaking...
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Apr.17.2005
Published by Cover, Sunday New York TImes Book Review
Back in the late 1930's, when Philip Rahv made that famous distinction between American literature's ''redskins'' (yawping Walt Whitman) and ''palefaces'' (finicking Henry James...
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Wonder and Awe”
—Hubert Selby Jr.
About Alan
Alan Kaufman's most recent book, Drunken Angel, a memoir, appears in paperback and hardcover from Viva Editions. His novel Matches was published by Little, Brown and Company in the Fall of 2005. David Mamet has called Matches "an extraordinary war novel," and...