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May.05.2010 - 5:01 pm
Many years ago I was living in a small country cottage with my two small children, without a desk, much less a room of my own to put it in. Each morning when the kids left for...
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Dec.30.2009 - 12:28 pm
In the past month several books have appeared whose basic premise is that being positive can be harmful to your health. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive...
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Jul.20.2008 - 8:57 am
I must be the only member of my generation—the Baby Boomers—avidly courting old age. Everyone else is trying like mad to stay young and live past 90, but I want to be old now and...
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Writing
Published Reviews
Jul.20.2008
Published by Ellen Umansky, Forward
Would All This Sex Stop Portnoy From Complaining?
‘The Oy of Sex’ Investigates the Odd Bedfellows of Pornography and Jewish Culture
By ELLEN UMANSKY
Many a frustrated novelist has...
About Marcy
Born in the Bronx. Moved about every six years to various parts of New York State. Lived in: Queens, Long Island, Woodstock, NYC. Moved to San Francisco in my 40s, somehow migrated to Oakland where I am now "Stuck inside of Oakland with the New York...
Causes Marcy Sheiner Supports
Hydrocephalus Association, Crohns and Colitis Foundation
Ousting the Republicans
Marcy’s Favorite Books
The Four Gated City
Shikasta
A Fine Balance
A Suitable Boy
Sabbaths Theater
Lonesome Dove
A Room of One's Own
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