Judith Pomeranz’s sublime New York stories rappel down the shiny pages of previous riffs on the art world, the Hamptons, and so much more. Part Amor Towles, part Hortense Calisher, these are sleekly crafted fictions possessing a droll eye, cheeky dialogue, and a whole lotta heart. The two retro novellas alone will make you a Pomeranz fan.
– Richard Peabody, Editor, Gargoyle Magazine
Books
Love On A Small Island: More Tales of New York
In these stories, we see love and its loss as a powerful force for good, for redemption, and for heightened awareness. But we also see it as a destructive, dislocating, dystonic, and frightening force. We see how love can expand one character’s worldview while causing others to collapse into themselves or run for emotional cover. We see how love can be dramatic or subtle, intense or gentle, true or false, but never without great power.
Love Without Asterisks
In this captivating book, we see the infinite variety of worlds within worlds that make up Manhattan, and discover how love, in its many guises and permutations, is the single most powerful motivating force within entirely disparate souls. A desperate, adulterous love between a cabaret singer and a physician is just as compelling as a grandmother’s devotion to the memory of her late grandson and bartender’s to the memory of his late wife. One brother’s love for another wreaks just as much havoc as a wealthy, lonely man’s feelings for a young fellow he is afraid to adore.