Snapshots from Bucharest
“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…
Read More And That’s a Wrap
This group!! It’s tough to put to words just how much the smiling faces in the photos below have come to mean to me over the course of our four months together. Our Writers Room first gathered as a whole in May. We weighed in from both coasts and we met every day, often for…
Read More Buzz Feed’s Life Changing Books
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.”
Read More Virtual Book Talk
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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