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Amazon has Vienna Triangle 2nd in Historical Fiction!

Feb.16.2012

Amazon has Vienna Triangle 2nd in Historical Fiction!

Vienna Triangle is now listed as ranking 2nd on Amazon in Historical Fiction!!!

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2009

Vienna Triangle

A young woman named Kate explores her historical connection to the development of Freudian theory and the early beginnings of psychoanalysis in this mystery rooted in the past. Based on real facts concerning the pivotal figures in the development of modern psychology, the complicated lives of Sigmund Freud, his colleague Helene Deutsch, and his rival Victor Tausk are carefully...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.30.2007

Letter to My Mother (translated)

Through literary works and public appearances, Edith Bruck, born 1932 in Hungary, has devoted her life to bearing witness to what she experienced in the Nazi concentration camps. In 1954 she settled in Rome and is today the most prolific writer of Holocaust narrative in Italian. The book is composed in two parts. Letter to My Mother--an imaginary dialogue between Bruck and her...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2006

The Beheading Game

Flamboyant New York theatre director Ren is passionately in love with Jack, a younger man who is still under the thumb of his conservative CEO father, Malcolm. Jack's differences with his father range from the fact that Jack is still in the closet regarding his sexuality to having to endure his father's platitudes about self-improvement and his contempt for Ren. The fact that his...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2000

The Last Good Freudian

The 1950s saw waves of Freudian disciples set up practices. In The Last Good Freudian, Brenda Webster describes what it was like to grow up in an intellectual and artistic Jewish family at that time. Her father, Wolf Schwabacher, was a prominent entertainment lawyer whose clients included the Marx Brothers, Lillian Hellman, and Erskine Caldwell. Her mother, Ethel Schwabacher, was a...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1999

Paradise Farm

Set in 1929, before the Crash, Paradise Farm probes the disintegration and rebirth of a wealthy Jewish family at a time when the New York art world was in ferment, women's roles were changing, the psychoanalytic movement was burgeoning--and Hitler's menace was recognized only by a prescient few.

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1993

Sins of the Mothers

Set in Berkeley, California, in the 1970s, this novel "charts the breakup of an abusive, seventeen-year marriage. Their 'intellectual companionship' long over, Connie and her bullying husband Howard, a plant physiologist, fight so much their home 'reflects a Middle East battle zone,' with their two children the victims of their constant arguing. Complicating things further is...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.1993

Hungry for Light: The Journals of Ethel Schwabacher (edited)

The journal of this Abstract Expressionist, covering the years 1967 through 1980, details the artist's creative process and her awareness of her aging and impending death. Co-edited with Judith E. Johnson.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1984

Blake's Prophetic Psychology

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.1973

Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study

This extraordinary study traces the complex connections between the traumatic memories of Yeats' childhood and recurrent themes in his work. A consistent, impressively documented, and wholly original view of the workings of the poet's mind.

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Tattoo Bird

Tatto Bird is a short story collection comprised of eleven stories. The title story received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the H.E. Francis Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. It was also twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Mar.15.2012 - 10:34 am

Amazon's Assault on Intellectual Freedom and Independent Publishers

My independent publisher WINGS Press just lost 40% of its profits. Just like that--from one day to the next. Just because they wouldn't accept Amazon's terms for a new contract....

Mar.05.2012 - 5:52 pm

Amazon, bright star or murderous asteroid

Last week my book Vienna Triangle was ranked number two on Amazon it stayed there moving form the Daily Deal to best in Historical Fiction. It was on the top ten for over a...

Feb.20.2012 - 1:00 am

Vienna Triangle ranking second on Amazon

The day before Valentine's Day I got a call that my book was ranking second on Amazon. That seemed impossible but when I looked, there it was. Then I noticed that Amazon had...

Nov.17.2011 - 2:16 pm

Lisa Appignanesi’s All About Love: Anatomy of an unruly Emotion

Interview by Brenda Webster BW: What made you decide to write about love? LA: It is something of a bizarre or perhaps grandiose subject to explore, given how many books have been...

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Mar.08.2012 - 11:40 am

In response to: The Author Experience

Amazon pushes hard and threatens small publishers

Christopher it sounds like you have made an intelligent use of new means of publishing. But what about the fact that...

Mar.05.2012 - 6:27 pm

In response to: Amazon Takes on the New York Publishing Houses

Amazon pushes hard

About it not being good for authors take a look at my blog-Amazon bright star or deadly asteroid!

Feb.20.2012 - 6:52 pm

In response to: “FREE” – THE NEWEST WRINKLE IN PUBLISHING

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That was fascinating. I saw that Amazon had made my book Vienna Triangle their Daily Deal along with a children's book...

Feb.18.2012 - 10:44 am

In response to: Amazon has Vienna Triangle 2nd in Historical Fiction!

Vienna Triangle ranking second on Amazon

I can;t seem to work the blog anymore so let me try here. The day before Valentine's Day I got a call that my book was...

Sep.10.2011 - 9:36 am

In response to: Tit for Tat: A new look at Sir Gawain

Sir Gawain

Belated thanks Richard...I have been so lazy about posting but there is a neat article just out in Psychoanalysis...

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Article: Brenda Webster Supports the Freedom to Write

Article: NEW! The New Yorker Book Bench Blog: Bossing Freud Around

Article: NEW! Eileen Malone interviews Brenda Webster for "Pen Women Presents"

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Vienna Triangle

Published by psychoPEDIA

Vienna Triangle is a brilliant novel that combines fact with the author's ingenious imagination to bring to life the historical figures of Freud and his disciples through the...

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Video: Reading from Vienna Triangle at Orinda Books, April 16th, 2009

Audio: Brenda Webster in conversation with Paula Hendricks

Audio: Brenda Webster reads an excerpt from VIENNA TRIANGLE

About Brenda

Brenda Webster was born in New York City, educated at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. She is a freelance writer, critic, and translater who splits her time between Berkeley and Rome,...

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Brenda Webster
Novelist, critic, and translator