Shiksa Goddess

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375413502
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiksa Goddess written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein’s mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure, discovering her gentile roots, proclaiming her love for ordered-in breakfasts, lobbying for affordable theater, or writing tenderly about her very Jewish mother and her own daughter, born when she was forty-eight and single, Wasserstein reveals the full, dizzying life of a shiksa goddess with unabashed candor and inimitable style.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375726039
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiksa Goddess written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein’s mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure, discovering her gentile roots, proclaiming her love for ordered-in breakfasts, lobbying for affordable theater, or writing tenderly about her very Jewish mother and her own daughter, born when she was forty-eight and single, Wasserstein reveals the full, dizzying life of a shiksa goddess with unabashed candor and inimitable style.

Author : Laurie Graff
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767930924
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shiksa Syndrome written by Laurie Graff and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhattan publicist Aimee Albert knows a good spin, but she’s the one who winds up reeling when her gorgeous, goyishe boyfriend breaks up with her—on Christmas! For a stand-up comedian, you’d think he would have better timing. But Aimee’s not about to let a man who doesn’t even have a real job get her down. She dusts herself off and decides to seek companionship with a member of her own tribe. There’s just one problem: all the shiksas are snapping them up! So when the very cute, Jewish, and gainfully employed Josh Hirsch catches Aimee’s eye at a kosher wine tasting and mistakes her for a shiksa, what’s a girl to do? Hey, her heart was broken, not her head! Unfortunately, the charade goes on longer than Aimee planned, and her life becomes more complicated than a Bergman film. To make matters worse, Josh and Aimee aren’t exactly on the same page as far as their attitudes toward Judaism go, creating tension in the relationship. But as Aimee begins to discover that her identity isn’t as easily traded as a pair of Jimmy Choos, she must decide if having the man of her dreams is worth the price of giving up so much of who she is. Wry and witty, The Shiksa Syndrome is a by turns laugh-out-loud funny and disarmingly poignant.

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1476850585
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Five Years (The Applause Libretto Library) written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Willis' Screen World has become the definitive reference for any film library. Each volume includes every significant U.S. and international film released during that year as well as complete filmographies capsule plot summaries cast and characters credits production company month released rating and running time. You'll also find biographical entries ä a prices reference for over 2 000 living stars including real name school place and date of birth. A comprehensive index makes this the finest film publication that any film lover could own.

Author : Edwin H. Friedman
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596270772
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Shiksa and Other Essays written by Edwin H. Friedman and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why did I give advice to Eve instead of going directly to Adam? I knew I would never be able to stop the Creator's overall plan, but I thought I might really be able to frustrate it if I could screw up some relationships." So speaks Satan as The First Family Counselor in this new collection of Edwin Friedman's most popular essays, edited by his daughter, Shira Friedman Bogart. Friedman's signature wit and playfulness goes straight to the heart of human relationships from one generation to another.Throughout his life, Friedman eloquently applied the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers, and his humor, sense of paradox, and unique style of storytelling were trademarks of his teaching style.

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679756450
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portnoy's Complaint written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994-09-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. "Deliciously funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious...a brilliantly vivid reading experience." —The New York Times Book Review "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented." —New York Review of Books Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

Author : Wendy Wasserstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307265544
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Style written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post—9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, floats on the fringes of the upper strata of privilege and aspiration. Through her bemused eyes we meet the thoroughbred socialite Samantha Acton; relentless social climber Judy Tremont; Barry Santorini, an Oscar-winning moviemaker accustomed to having his way; his supermarket heiress wife, Clarice; and more, tossed together in a frothy stew of outrageous conspicuous consumption and adulterous affairs that play out on Page Six. But when Wasserstein’s madcap tour of the social lives and mores of twenty-first-century Manhattan veers into tragedy, we finally see the true cost of her characters’ choices, and the beating heart of this dazzling novel.

Author : Avi Roseman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450290000
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Shiksa Appeal written by Avi Roseman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any nice Jewish girl who follows Ms. Avis advice can catch the Jewish stallion (or near-sighted miniature horse) of her dreams and have a (matzoh) ball doing it. This is a must read for Jewish single gals. Lori Uscher-Pines, PhD,, author of the Get Your Man to Marry You Plan Secrets of Shiksa Appeal is the sultry, no-holds barred guide to Jewish dating in a post-shtetl society. Ms. Avi, the ultimate yenta, will show her naughty tactics to attract your shul-mate before that chick with no knowledge of a kugel gets him first. This sassy guide reveals the secrets to: Dressing like the girl his mother never wanted him to date Piquing the interest of Jewish men in any setting Challenging him more than World of Warcraft Choosing the perfect shiksa gift Keeping him hooked after a good shtup Letting him think he controls the relationship, even though he doesnt Using her no-BS approach, Ms. Avi provides techniques you can use to coerce Jewish men to date within their kind. Discover the dirty secrets to what Jewish men really want...hell never crave Christmas ham again. .

Author : Ash Carter
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250112869
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life isn't everything written by Ash Carter and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts—from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels. The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness—from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple. If that weren’t enough, he was also one half of the timelessly funny duo Nichols & May, as well as a founding member of the original improv troupe. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Most fans, however, know very little of the person behind it all. Since he never wrote his memoirs, and seldom appeared on television, they have very little sense of his searching intellect or his devastating wit. They don't know that Nichols, the great American director, was born Mikail Igor Peschkowsky, in Berlin, and came to this country, speaking no English, to escape the Nazis. They don't know that Nichols was at one time a solitary psychology student, or that a childhood illness caused permanent, life-altering side effects. They don't know that he withdrew into a debilitating depression before he "finally got it right," in his words, by marrying Diane Sawyer. Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols' life, as told by the stars, moguls, playwrights, producers, comics and crewmembers who stayed loyal to Nichols for years. Life Isn't Everything is a mosaic portrait of a brilliant and original director known for his uncommon charm, wit, vitality, and genius for friendship, this volume is also a snapshot of what it meant to be living, loving, and making art in the 20th century.

Author : Steven Lee Beeber
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569762287
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's written by Steven Lee Beeber and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people —among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn—this book focuses on punk's beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements, in both makeup and attitude. As it originated in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the early 1970s, punk rock was the apotheosis of a Jewish cultural tradition that found its ultimate expression in the generation born after the Holocaust. Beginning with Lenny Bruce, &“the patron saint of punk,&” and following pre-punk progenitors such as Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, Suicide, and the Dictators, this fascinating mixture of biography, cultural studies, and musical analysis delves into the lives of these and other Jewish punks—including Richard Hell and Joey Ramone—to create a fascinating historical overview of the scene. Reflecting the irony, romanticism, and, above all, the humor of the Jewish experience, this tale of changing Jewish identity in America reveals the conscious and unconscious forces that drove New York Jewish rockers to reinvent themselves—and popular music.