Susan Comninos


Lucette Lagnado’s Second Memoir of Cairo and Brooklyn Concentrates on Her Mother

By Susan Comninos

Lucette Lagnado’s Second Memoir of Cairo and Brooklyn Concentrates on Her Mother
Lucette Lagnado’s second memoir retells her family’s story from Cairo to Brooklyn, but this time the story is told from her mother’s perspective.Read More


How To Carry On

By Susan Comninos

How To Carry On
When American-born novelist Cynthia Ozick published her 1997 New Yorker essay “Who Owns Anne Frank?” the possessive stance of the author, then 69, was clear. By the time that Tova Reich, the American-born author of the novel “My Holocaust” (HarperCollins, 2007) — and a generation younger than Ozick —reviewed the question of who can claim to be a victim of the Shoah, her reply was a more diffuse and satiric “you.”Read More


Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?

By Susan Comninos

Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
If you like gross-out humor, you’ll love “Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish,” a new compilation of essays, derived from Heeb magazine’s live storytelling series.Read More


pecan, rodef, clam

By Susan Comninos

Susan Comninos’s poetry has appeared in Lilith, Tikkun, Judaism and “The Blueline Anthology” (Syracuse University Press, 2004), among others. Her fiction is forthcoming in Quarterly West.Read More


Shout

By Susan Comninos

Shout
A poem by Susan ComninosRead More