Table Of Contents

Introductions
Ted Solotaroff: The Open Community
Nessa Rapoport: Summoned by the Feast

Max Apple: The Eighth Day
Saul Bellow: Something to Remember Me By
Marsha Lee Berkman: Deeds of Love and Rage
Michael Chabon: S Angel
E.L. Doctorow: The Writer in the Family
Allegra Goodman: Variant Text
Mark Helprin: North Light—A Recollection in the Present Tense
Allen Hoffman: Building Blocks
Johanna Kaplan: Sickness
Deirdre Levinson: April 19th, 1985
Bernard Malamud: The Silver Crown
Daphne Merkin: Enchantment
Leonard Michaels: Murderers
Cynthia Ozick: Bloodshed
Grace Paley: Zagrowsky Tells
Nessa Rapoport: The Woman Who Lost Her Names
Robin Roger: The Pagan Phallus
Philip Roth: “I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting”; or, Looking at Kafka
Adam Schwartz: Where Is It Written?
Lynne Sharon Schwartz: The Melting Pot
Lore Segal: The Reverse Bug
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Party in Miami Beach
Joanna Spiro: Three Thousand Years of Your History…Take One Year for Yourself
Eppie Zore’a: Orchards