After a false start involving some canola oil that had gone to the other side, my mother and I just made somewhere in the vicinity of ninety-seven hamantashn with, dare I say it, production-line efficiency. SUCK IT, HENRY FORD.
(Apricot, prune, sour cherry, poppy seed. The latter are my favorite these days.)
I know there are only so many original plots in the world and most convergences are produced by parallel evolution rather than plagiarism, so I assume David Freyne who wrote and directed The Cured (2017) never read Joy Kennedy-O'Neill's "Aftermath" (though everyone should, it's great) and I'm quite sure that neither David Levithan nor Michael Sucsy ever heard of me, but I read about Every Day (2018) and thought in a rare moment of self-esteem, "Dammit, I did that better in 'The Dybbuk in Love.'"
(Apricot, prune, sour cherry, poppy seed. The latter are my favorite these days.)
I know there are only so many original plots in the world and most convergences are produced by parallel evolution rather than plagiarism, so I assume David Freyne who wrote and directed The Cured (2017) never read Joy Kennedy-O'Neill's "Aftermath" (though everyone should, it's great) and I'm quite sure that neither David Levithan nor Michael Sucsy ever heard of me, but I read about Every Day (2018) and thought in a rare moment of self-esteem, "Dammit, I did that better in 'The Dybbuk in Love.'"
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