Leora Skolkin-Smith's Writings
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Article
Apr.27.2012
San Francisco Book Review
http://sanfranciscobookreview.com/2012/04/writing-fiction-too-convincingly/
After completing my first novel, I didn’t mind when people came up to me after a reading and talked to me as if I had personally experienced the wars between Palestine and Israel in the 1960s. I must admit it was flattering after so many years of being a mere shadow on a landscape upon...
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Essay
Jan.04.2012
The Fiction Studio Blog
All the characters Lilly invents are fictional but, after doing a lot of research in texts as far back as Babylonia , Egypt, and the Middle Ages, I based them on the practices, facts, and personages most known as the world’s first psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. In their times they were suspected as being mystics and sorcerers. In this first story, the...
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Essay
Jan.04.2012
The Fiction Studio Blog
While trying to find a language for the painful and inaccessible emotional states my novel Hystera’s main character, Lilly, felt as she floated in and out of reality, I stumbled on a book called Sorcery and Alchemy. Inside were wild etchings drawn by early alchemists in the Renaissance which, more than our contemporary psychological vocabulary,...
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Short Story
Dec.07.2011
JEWISH FICTION
A Tape of Helen Gilderstein Speaking
By Leora Skolkin-Smith
New York City, 1989
"What about my life now, Lilly?" Helen had begun, "My life is a different story altogether. I do not believe you can understand it. I should make an exhibit of paintings. Then there would really be something to see. They have to have another...
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Nov.11.2011
Center for Fiction
Writers on Writing: Leora Skolkin Smith The Thirty-Year Novel
Leora Skolkin-Smith found strength and sustenance from Sontag, Barthelme, and the great writers of the past
As part of surviving the long, lonely hours of writing a novel about madness that I was certain would continue to be rejected by publishers, I...
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Essay
Sep.27.2011
The Fiction Studio
About writing and the influence of Grace Paley and my own mother.
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Essay
Sep.09.2011
Fiction Studio Books
An Essay on how reading Proust helped me define my Middle Eastern childhood
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Short Story
Aug.05.2010
Guernica Magazine
An unpublished excerpt from the novel, Edges, published by Grace Paley in 2005. The novel has since been re-titled and expanded for the feature film, The Fragile Mistress, currently in pre-production with Triboro Pictures. It will be shot on location in Jerusalem, Jordan, and New York, and directed by Michael Gunther.
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Short Story
Aug.05.2010
Guernica Magazine
An unpublished excerpt from the novel, Edges, published by Grace Paley in 2005. The novel has since been re-titled and expanded for the feature film, The Fragile Mistress, currently in pre-production with Triboro Pictures. It will be shot on location in Jerusalem, Jordan, and New York, and directed by Michael Gunther.
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About Leora
My first published novel, EDGES was edited and published by the late Grace Paley for Ms. Paley's own imprint at Glad Day books. EDGES was nominated for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award by Grace Paley.
THE FRAGILE MISTRESS, a feature...
Causes Leora Skolkin-Smith Supports
Israel/Palestine issues women issues Mental Health system