About Peter Manseau
Why Fact Needs Fiction
Many in the publishing world will caution a writer with an interest in both fiction and non-fiction to pick one genre and stick with it, as if a journalist writing a novel was somehow akin to a chiropractor taking a … Read More
Missionary Yiddish
When I worked in the Jewish world, I was at first surprised, then annoyed, and eventually amused to find that my motives for being there were often suspect. People sometimes wondered if I was some kind of missionary, which to … Read More
Life as a Non-Jewish Jewish Novelist
In my last post I wondered if my unlikely career as a non-Jewish Jewish novelist began with the religious environment in which I was raised: with parents who broke one of the Catholic Church’s most distinctive rules simply by bringing … Read More
How a Priest’s Kid Won a Jewish Book Award
Peter Manseau, author of Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, is guest blogging this week as one Jewcy‘s Lit Klatsch bloggers. Peter’s book is about a fictional Yiddish poet born in Moldova at the turn of the 20th Century. If there … Read More