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Is There a Secret Price to an Intellectual Jewish Life?

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By Bonnie Friedman
| Lilith Magazine Verified
When I started getting good grades at The Bronx High School of Science after a childhood of lunkheadedness, I began to feel like a person. I had learned how to study. I sat at the white Formica desk under the glow of the Light o’Lier lamp, and my pale brow floated in the dark window before me. It was ten pm, it was eleven, and I felt exalted, sweeping up the facts in books, winnowing down my body.
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Eight Books About Women With Secret Lives

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By Bonnie Friedman
| Literary Hub Verified
Bonnie Friedman Recommends Deesha Philyaw, Azar Nafisi, Annie Ernaux, and More Women’s lives are prone to secrets. There is so much about ourselves that we are punished for publicly acknowledging – our political and business ambitions, our desire to be rewarded for our achievements, even the existence of sexism itself. I was driven to write about a woman with a secret in my new novel, Don’t Stop.
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Losing My Maps - Ploughshares

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By Bonnie Friedman
| Ploughshares Verified
“You are too nice,” Kathryn Harrison once said to me. Or perhaps what she said was, “You are very nice!” but to me it sounded like the same thing. I admired and admire Kathryn. She is an astonishing writer and an astonishing soul. Several years ago, she guest-edited an issue of Ploughshares, and she devoted it entirely to the personal essay. No fiction, no poetry. She framed her intro to all this nonfiction with two images, both startling.
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