Changeling
The story of how I wrote my second novel begins in 1999, when my four-year-old daughter Anna had a minor accident that caused massive intercranial bleeding.
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Stephen Policoff
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Stephen Policoff's first novel, "Beautiful Somewhere Else," won the James Jones 1st Novel Award and was published by Carroll & Graf in 2004. His essays and fiction have appeared in magazines ranging from "Family Fun" to "Provincetown Arts." He has recently completed his second novel, "The Buddha Train." He teaches writing at NYU.
The Two Tragedies of Life: Le Grand Meaulnes, Modernism (And Me)
One night, she burst into my room, handed me a battered paperback and said, “This is the best book on earth and it’s about us,” and dashed back out again.
A Truthful Book of Poverty: Jews Without Money, My Grandmother, Me
1. When NYU’s Liberal Studies Program—where I teach writing—announced that it would be sponsoring a symposium on the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, four somewhat peculiar words sprang into my…