I wrote a meditation for the 9/25/2024 “Writer’s Journal” column in The Boston Globe about looking for a grandfather I never knew… I GO LOOKING
I’m thrilled to learn that Kantika has received the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction from the wonderful Massachusetts Center for the Book, with a ceremony
“Elizabeth Graver’s Kantika is uniquely an American Jewish novel centered around Eastern Sephardi immigrants to the United States. Moving around temporally and geographically—Istanbul, Cuba, Barcelona,
My beloved friend and literary agent (until his retirement in 2015), Richard Parks, died on April 23, 2024. Carrying his never-ending encouragement with me, I
On April 15, I’m honored to be going to the University of Hartford to receive this year’s Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Kantika. My younger
I had the huge pleasure of doing an event at the Jewish Museum in New York City last week, following two days of festivities and
The paperback of Kantika comes out in April 2024, with early copies making their way out into the world already! I’m excited for a number
When, a few days ago, I received the wonderful news that Kantika had won a National Jewish Book Award—the Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory
I was so excited to learn that Kantika had been selected as this year’s book for San Francisco’s Jewish Community Library’s “One Bay One Book
I was so happy to get to talk about Kantika with author and podcaster G.P. Gottleib. She’s a wonderfully appreciative and perceptive reader, and she
I was delighted to get to have a substantive conversation about Kantika, my writing practice, weathering rejection, favorite words and more with the wonderful interviewer
I had a wonderful conversation with Michael Tusa, who has a radio show on WRBH Reading Radio in New Orleans. I loved hearing about the
Debby Waldman is my beloved friend from long ago days when we were both grad students studying writing and literature at Cornell. Though we live
I had the good fortune to be interviewed by Brittany White on the Ottoman History Podcast. Earlier episodes featuring the work of Ottoman scholars, among
What a pleasure it was to get to talk about Kantika last week with Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, as part of
In which I muse on our field of horses in The Boston Globe. Read my essay here (apologies for the fact that some of the
I wrote an essay for Zibby Magazine about the process of writing Kantika—over a span of 40 years!! You can read it here!
I wrote an essay for the Jewish Book Council on the quite extraordinary experience I had while I was doing research for Kantika of finding
Kantika comes out on April 18th! I’ll have my launch reading at the wonderful Newtonville Books and do other events throughout New England, as well
THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE at Henry Holt & Co. have designed a set of images that pair photos from Kantika with quotes from the book; they
I fly out later today for an artists’ residency at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, where I’ll mess around with some new writing,
Tell me about this novel – what is Kantika about? Who are the characters? Kantika is a story of migration, motherhood, blended families, disability and
I woke up today to find this beautiful response to Kantika from Justina Elias, a bookseller and young writer at Munro Books in Victoria, British
I just finished reading a wonderful book, One Hundred Saturdays, by Michael Frank. The author spent seven years of Saturdays interviewing a woman named Stella
I have some writer friends who get up each day at dawn to write, no matter what else is happening in their lives. While I
A German edition of Kantika is forthcoming from Mareverlag, the house that published The End of the Point (called Die Sommer der Porters in German).
In 1985, when I was twenty-one, I taped my grandmother Rebecca telling stories. My grandmother—a vibrant, shape-shifting, endlessly creative person whose life journey brought many
You can unsubscribe anytime.