All posts by Rebecca Steinitz

December 8th, 2010

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: Rebecca Steinitz in Conversation with a Chef

My husband, Sam Putnam, is the chef of a popular new restaurant, which I’m not going to name because it’s already gotten plenty of publicity.

I wanted to interview him because I haven’t seen him much lately and people are always asking me how he’s doing.  He also tends to be a quiet guy, and I wanted to get him to talk. …more

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June 23rd, 2009

Rebecca Steinitz: The Last Book I Loved, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

9781906462079The last book I loved was Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey. I hadn’t loved a book in a while, but I thought I might love this one because it is a Persephone book, and I also quite loved the cover which features a 1930s Harold Knight painting of a languid young lady in a sea-colored sweater and yellow skirt, reading on a window seat, with downs or cottages or some such British landscape murkily visible through the window beside her. …more

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Rebecca Steinitz is a writer and editor in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, The Utne Reader, Salon, The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, Hip Mama, Literary Mama, and The Women's Review of Books, among other places. She also works with urban high school teachers as a writing coach in the Boston Public Schools.

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