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Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz  has published novels, short stories, essays and poems. Her latest book is Truthtelling, a collection of stories.

“A Refreshing Change Is in Your Future”

“A Refreshing Change Is in Your Future”

Making art out of fortune-cookie wisdom

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Thursday, February 18, 2021
The Man Behind the Counter

The Man Behind the Counter 

A neighborhood grocer, inscrutable and gruff, lingers mysteriously in my memory

by Lynne Sharon Schwartz | Monday, March 04, 2019

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A Mother’s Secret

by Werner Gundersheimer

In this 2011 essay, Werner Gundersheimer remembers his mother’s efforts to preserve a version of his childhood free of the Holocaust’s painful scars. “We all know that memory is selective, and that the mind blots out what it can’t bear to retain,” he writes. “For [Mom], the past was always present, and the only way to keep it at bay was to steer clear of it.”

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