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Mar.16.2012
An examination of an insular world is best described by an insider--especially one who's never felt she belonged in this world, yet was pinned to its dogmas and unbending religious fanaticism.
Deborah Feldman's difficult upbringing was clouded and severely compromised by the absence of her...
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Dec.02.2011
Tooting my own horn? Talking about that tingling feeling of satisfaction when my work is recognized and applauded for a job well done? These are almost taboos, which I am breaking here....
I am pleased to share with my fellow Red Room authors and readers that my novel JERUSALEM MAIDEN, (...
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Sep.11.2011
Having been a suporter of counter-terrorism intelligence in the United States, I attended in January 2001 a closed-group briefing by Richard Clarke, at the time US Counter-Terrorism Coordinator at the National Security Council and a chief counter-terrorism adviser to four USA presidents. He...
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Aug.07.2011
Not since slavery in the USA were mothers punished by having their children taken away from them. Yet, in family courts all across America, judges and quasi-judicial officers of the court do just that: children who are abused or molested by their fathers are removed from their primary-care good...
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Jun.09.2011
With the release of my new novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, Red Room is featuring my original article, "Tunneling Under Jerusalem," the extensive research I had conducted for this novel, a project that took me from New York to Jerusalem, and then surprisingly, to Paris.
I purposely chose to...
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May.04.2011
Benjamin D'Israeli said, “When I want to read a good book, I write one.” But even D'Israeli, I am sure, also read books written by others—and enjoyed them.
As an author, I am often asked for books I’ve read and enjoyed. I am also asked to read works-in-progress. Unfortunately, I do more of the...
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Apr.11.2011
Passover 2011
This Passover, as we celebrate our ancestors’ freedom from slavery, we reconnect through our most important holiday with our centuries-long traditions. It is incumbent upon us to contemplate the broader concept of freedom and what it means to us as individuals, as members of...
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Mar.27.2011
Unlike my previous novels, set in places I had merely glimpsed, with characters that were entirely fictional—albeit quite alive in my own head—JERUSALEM MAIDEN was inspired by my grandmother and her untapped artistic genius.
Born in Jerusalem, my grandmother Esther was an astonishingly gifted...
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Mar.03.2011
As HarperCollins is gearing up to release JERUSALEM MAIDEN, New York Times' best-selling authors such as Tess Gerristen, Jacqueline Mitchard and Jennifer Lauck have read the galleys and are showering the novel with praise.
“Exquisitely told, with details so vivid you can almost taste the food...
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Feb.25.2011
If a green-eyed Martian landed at the United Nation building, he would report back to Mars about the wonderful countries populating Planet Earth. Specifically, his account might describe the block of fifty-six Muslim nations entrusted in making this planet a peaceful habitat for all...
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Jan.16.2011
When I entered the Hebrew University in Jerusalem at age twenty (after two years of military service,) my new roommate’s boyfriend had a close friend, Amiram. Amiram was just turning eighteen, awaiting his Israel Defense Force service some months later. Connecting via our respective roommates, we...
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Jan.08.2011
It is hard to imagine the challenge facing a school that serves over 800 children from forty-eight countries, children who’ve known wars and strife, who saw their parents killed in front of their eyes, or children who had walked the desert, or who come to school hungry and whose parents...
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Dec.27.2010
Dear Reader;
I am delighted that you're visiting my Red Room page--probably directed here by my landmark AOL article about my hopes for women in the second decade of the 21st century.
For more about my writing--and my upcoming novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, which deals with the plight of a young woman in...
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Dec.27.2010
My wish for the new year, the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century, is for women around the globe to progress significantly in both public and private arenas.
On Dec. 10, the world observed Human Rights Day, commemorating the 1948 adoption by the U.N. General Assembly of the inalienable...
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Dec.20.2010
Elsewhere on a writers’ discussion board, a novice author asked me which writers' conferences I recommended. Earlier in my writing career I was a "writers’ conference junkie," attending as many workshops and programs as I could cram. It was my self-designed MFA...
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Talia Carner has written a moving and utterly captivating novel that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.”
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—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Girl
About Talia
Talia Carner worked for Redbook magazine before becoming the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. A former adjunct professor at Long Island University School of Management and a founder of her own marketing consulting...
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