Better Known

Hilma Wolitzer


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Hilma Wolitzer discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Hilma Wolitzer is a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, New York University, Columbia University, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her first published story appeared when she was thirty-six, and her first novel eight years later. Her many stories and novels have drawn critical praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives in New York City. Her latest collection of short stories is Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket.

  1. Bharati Mukherjee https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/07/nnp/mukherjee-middleman.html
  2. Stanley Elkin https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3712/the-art-of-fiction-no-61-stanley-elkin
  3. Agha Shahid Ali https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/agha-shahid-ali
  4. Mary Lou Williams https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/749743012/how-mary-lou-williams-shaped-the-sound-of-the-big-band-era
  5. Dr Rick Hodes https://rickhodes.org/
  6. The Little Fugitive https://www.highonfilms.com/little-fugitive-1953-review/
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