Janna Malamud Smith

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My Father is a Book

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Dear Janna I am an Iranian. I worked on your father's works for my MA thesis. Now I would like to study for my PhD and looking for a scholarship and a thesis guide. I would be glad if you could help me.

I love you...sorry

I am studying your essay "My Son, My Compass" in college. We are comparing it to others and the main question for it is how the authors are stuck in two worlds. As for you being stuck in the one world as how you raised him and the other world about how he became a vegan and took the family on that way also...is he still a vegan and I admire all of you for what you do and you are an inspiration to us women, daughters and mothers alike Kristy....NEW JERSEY

I'm enjoying reading this memoir - it's touchingly human and evocative. It's nice to see Bernard Malamud though your experiences of him as father and writer- and to see the conflicts in him that have colored and added texture to his works. The book also explains a family history that gives perspective to the characters and lives he wrote about. I am grateful for your book, "My Father is a Book." Thank you.


Selected Works

1. Non-Fiction
Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life
“a gorgeously written anecdotal cultural history of the emergence and the fragile sanctity of the modern creative self…”
-The New York Times Book Review
2. Non-fiction
A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear
“reads like a deep, intelligent conversation with a valued woman friend.”
--Ottawa Citizen
"Fascinating. . . provocative."
--Washington Post
Non-fiction
My Father is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud
"Beautiful...A must for anyone interested in the work of Bernard Malamud, or the writer's life..." Mary Gordon

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