by Karma Kitaj | Sep 11, 2019 | Blogging
Because journalist Tinky Weisblat questioned in her August review of BEGUILED in the Greenfield Recorder, why I hadn’t included any instances of anti-Semitism which was rampant in the early 1900s, I began to question myself. Why not? I grew up in small cities...
by Karma Kitaj | May 30, 2019 | Blogging
When I was writing BEGUILED and found a wonderful repository of information at a library in Austin, TX, I was delighted to learn so much about the history of 1920s Jazz Age and the intelligentsia who peopled it. Now I’ve discovered another library that holds...
by Karma Kitaj | Jan 20, 2019 | Blogging
Yes, I’m a social worker, but I haven’t practiced as such for many decades. Instead, early on I went into private practice as a psychotherapist, then a life and career coach. But, in preparing to meet with a group of social workers in Central Massachusetts...
by Karma Kitaj | Jan 9, 2019 | Blogging
The sequel,suggested by so many of my readers, in in the works. I began it on Xmas day as I was waiting for my new recipe of turkey thighs a la Spanish style to cook. A fantastic recipe, by the way. The new story is told from a first-person narrator: Miriam in her...
by Karma Kitaj | Dec 12, 2018 | Blogging
If you’ve read BEGUILED, you’ll know that Miriam Levine, protagonist of my historical novel, once lived briefly in the most celebrated residence in NYC – the Dakota. Yes, the very same place that John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980. It’s...
