Shoot Day 123/123
Last Wednesday marked the 123rd and final day of the We Were the Lucky Ones series shoot. I can’t believe it. I remember meeting the cast and walking the hallways of the Kurc apartment in Bucharest for the first time as if it were yesterday. I made four trips across the pond to be a…
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“Hello, friend,” said Tommy, producer and director for the television series of We Were the Lucky Ones. “Come meet your family.” It was the day before Thanksgiving, and I’d just landed in Bucharest, Romania, where filming would take place. Tommy was leading a rehearsal with the cast, who had flown in from LA, London and Tel Aviv. My…
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I’m thrilled and humbled to be included in BuzzFeed’s list of books that have changed readers’ lives – to find We Were the Lucky Ones among classic favorites by authors like Maya Angelou, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Viktor E. Frankl, Stephen Hawking, Aldous Huxley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gabriel García Márquez, Art Spiegelman, J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, David…
Read More New York Times: My Review of We Germans
Honored to review We Germans for the NYTimes Book Review, in the 8/30/20 issue devoted to World War II at 75. This does feel like an opportune moment to seek out “perspectives starkly different from our own.”
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Like other authors, I sorely miss the chance to meet with readers in person, thanks to social distancing – a necessary element of the Coronavirus pandemic. But maybe a silver lining is the ability to reach new audiences virtually, regardless of location. This week I was delighted to be “in the room” with readers from…
Read More “Inspired Stories” Keynote
Honored to have been featured as keynote speaker at the Oklahoma Conference of Churches Annual Dinner, themed “Inspired Stories.”
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