sovay | Things are different for us now than when I wrote my first story

My prose poem "On Two Streets, with Three Languages" is now online at Interfictions. It is an absolutely amazing issue. If you want to know more about S. An-sky, I can recommend Gabrielle Safran's Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky (2010) and Nathaniel Deutsch's The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (2011).The title is taken from a statement he made about himself at a banquet in his honor in 1910: "A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets, with three languages." The third language, as always, is the one that interested me.

I had a doctor's appointment this morning. In the afternoon, I had a good voice lesson. I met Dean afterward in Harvard Square. I got rained on twice and overheated in between, because this is spring in New England, or something sufficiently resembling it.

I am extraordinarily tired.

Things are different for us now than when I wrote my first story

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