Norma Rosen currently teaches at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is the author of the novels Joy to Levine!; Touching Evil; At the Center; John and Anzia: An American Romance; and a collection of short stories, Green.

Foreword
1. A Holocause Mentality

The Holocaust and the American-Jewish Novelist
Simone Weil¿A Dissenting View
The Bird Has No Wings: Letters of Peter Schwiefert
Bernard Malamud and the Accidents of Influence
The Literature of Contempt
The Second Life of Holocaust Imagery
On T. S. Eliot: Geniuses and Anti-Semites
Hunting Metaphors and Nazis
"I Had the Distinct Impression Death was Jewish": E. L. Doctorow
Norman Mailer's Holocaust-Poisoned Jews
The Fate of Anne Frank's Diary
Justice for Jonah, or, A Bible Bartleby
Minority Writers and the American Mainstream: Telling Stories in the Houses We Create
Notes Toward a Holocaust Fiction

2. Life Notes

On Living in Two Cultures
Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America
Friday Night Fever
A Women's Service
Women? Writers?
On the Dearth of Female Intellectuals
Her Price Above Rubies
Low Thoughts Among the High-Minded
Sons and Mothers
Baby-Making
Child-Abuse
The World's First Crop
Sometimes I Feel Like a Siblingless Child
An Immoral Tale
William Faulkner and the Art of Ruthlessness
The Luck of the Trip

3. Celebrations

"Wadja Geffa Christmas, Li'l Boy?"
Reclaiming