Neal charnoff biography

Articles by Neal Charnoff on Muck Rack.
We last heard from writer Lisa Alther in 2007, when she spoke with VPR's Neal Charnoff about her memoir, Kinfolks.
Sheena Ramirez lives in Winston-Salem and joined WFDD's Neal Charnoff for a conversation about the project.

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Meet The Bloggers: Chris Terry

Marginalia: The Graduate Blog
Columbia College Chicago
2012

Tell us a little bit about what you were doing before you came to Columbia.

Words are a big deal in my family. My mother was a children’s librarian who always encouraged me to read, which backfired when I would spell things out while speaking (“C-a-n w-e g-o t-o t-h-e p-o-o-l-question mark?”). Yes, it was obnoxious.

English was the easy A in high school, so that’s what I studied in college. I got a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University, then left Richmond for New York so that I could use my degree for something besides making lattes. In New York, I did Production and Editorial work for a couple of publishing houses, and also worked as a corporate Proofreader for advertisers, websites, translation firms and banks. My longest-term job was fifteen months spent editing catalogs for a makeup company. It wasn’t bad, but as a lover of creative writing, proofreading felt like looking through the window at an awesome party. I’d been doing some music writing and publishing zines, and s

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Joseph Olshan

American novelist

Joseph Olshan is an American novelist.

Life and career

Olshan is the author of ten novels, most recently, Black Diamond Fall (Polis Books, 2018). His first novel, Clara's Heart, won the Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers' Competition and went on to be made into a feature film starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1988.^[1]^[2] In addition to his novels, he has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Chronicle^[3]The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Times, The Observer, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Observer, Harper's Bazaar, People Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a regular book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal. For most of the 1990s he was a professor of Creative Writing at New York University, where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. He is currently Editorial Director of Delphinium Books (distributed by Harpercollins).^[4]^[5]^[6]

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Exhibit, performance commemorate voices from the Holocaust

An exhibition at the Lam Museum of Anthropology on the campus of Wake Forest University combines literature, music and performance to form connections with those who witnessed or lost their lives in the Holocaust.

The exhibit is called "Words, Music, Memory: Re(presenting) Voices of the Holocaust." It highlights writers bearing witness, including Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank and Nelly Sachs. A digital gallery guide includes biographies, sketches and performance adaptations by contemporary composers and performers.

Sheena Ramirez is a classical singer and co-creator of the exhibition. She will be part of a musical performance and lecture at the Brendle Recital Hall at Wake Forest University on Sunday, February 11, at 1 p.m.

Sheena Ramirez lives in Winston-Salem and joined WFDD's Neal Charnoff for a conversation about the project.

Interview highlights:

On commemoration through the arts:

"This particular exhibit allows for us to look into different perspectives of individuals; some survived