After opening a fancy winery a California vintner finds himself deeply in debt. What happened next—falsely bottles, stolen grapes, and criminal charges—have shaken an industry “built on romance, expensive land, hard labor and a whole lot of faith.”
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The Skin I’m In: Stories By Writers of Color
I wanted to share these stories about love and music and beauty and family.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Defenders
What does the future of legal services for the poor look like?
Posted inReading List
Romance, Relationships and Religion: A Reading List
1. “Breaking Up is Hard to Do – Especially in the Orthodox World.” (Jewcy, Rachel Delia Benaim, July 2014) I recently finished reading Cut Me Loose, Leah Vincent’s memoir of her time in the ultra-Orthodox community, her subsequent shunning and eventual breakout. Benaim, the author of this piece comes from a Modern Orthodox background, but many of the […]
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The Radical Pessimism of Dashiell Hammett
The stories of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler once wrote, “gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.”
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Skin I’m In: Stories By Writers of Color
I wanted to share these stories about love and music and beauty and family.
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Romance, Relationships and Religion: A Reading List
Emily’s picks this weeks includes stories from Jewcy, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed, and Religion News Service.
Posted inReading List
Romance, Relationships and Religion: A Reading List
1. “Breaking Up is Hard to Do – Especially in the Orthodox World.” (Jewcy, Rachel Delia Benaim, July 2014) I recently finished reading Cut Me Loose, Leah Vincent’s memoir of her time in the ultra-Orthodox community, her subsequent shunning and eventual breakout. Benaim, the author of this piece comes from a Modern Orthodox background, but many of the […]
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia.
