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San Francisco Reading of After Auschwitz a Love Story

Apr.08.2014

San Francisco Reading of After Auschwitz a Love Story

In honor of National Holocaust Remembrance Day, Books Inc. Opera Plaza presents novelist, freelance writer, playwright, critic, translator, and 2007 finalist for the Northern California Book Award, Brenda S. Webster sharing her lyrical and sophisticated new novel, After Auschwitz. Described as "without a doubt the most profound, moving and important of Webster's novels" by legendary editor Alan Rinzler, this is a one-of-a-kind love story that bravely confronts two of the 20th century's terrible A's, Alzheimer's Disease and the Auschwitz death camp.
Refreshments will be served beginning at 5 PM. Brenda will begin her reading at 5:30 PM.
Location:
Books Inc.
601 Van Ness
San Francisco, California
United States

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2014

After Auschwitz: A Love Story

"When we're young we tend to think of memory as something belonging to us. There are good memories and bad ones, but aside from forgetting names occasionally, it is hard to imagine what ceasing to rely on your memory means. My mind still functions enough for me to be frightened and feel diminished. Someday, I hope not too soon, I'll cease to be alarmed...." ...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2009

Vienna Triangle

A young woman named Kate explores her historical connection to the development of Freudian theory and the early beginnings of psychoanalysis in this mystery rooted in the past. Based on real facts concerning the pivotal figures in the development of modern psychology, the complicated lives of Sigmund Freud, his colleague Helene Deutsch, and his rival Victor Tausk are carefully...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.30.2007

Letter to My Mother (translated)

Through literary works and public appearances, Edith Bruck, born 1932 in Hungary, has devoted her life to bearing witness to what she experienced in the Nazi concentration camps. In 1954 she settled in Rome and is today the most prolific writer of Holocaust narrative in Italian. The book is composed in two parts. Letter to My Mother--an imaginary dialogue between Bruck and her...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2006

The Beheading Game

Flamboyant New York theatre director Ren is passionately in love with Jack, a younger man who is still under the thumb of his conservative CEO father, Malcolm. Jack's differences with his father range from the fact that Jack is still in the closet regarding his sexuality to having to endure his father's platitudes about self-improvement and his contempt for Ren. The fact that his...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2000

The Last Good Freudian

The 1950s saw waves of Freudian disciples set up practices. In The Last Good Freudian, Brenda Webster describes what it was like to grow up in an intellectual and artistic Jewish family at that time. Her father, Wolf Schwabacher, was a prominent entertainment lawyer whose clients included the Marx Brothers, Lillian Hellman, and Erskine Caldwell. Her mother, Ethel Schwabacher, was a...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1999

Paradise Farm

Set in 1929, before the Crash, Paradise Farm probes the disintegration and rebirth of a wealthy Jewish family at a time when the New York art world was in ferment, women's roles were changing, the psychoanalytic movement was burgeoning--and Hitler's menace was recognized only by a prescient few.

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1993

Sins of the Mothers

Set in Berkeley, California, in the 1970s, this novel "charts the breakup of an abusive, seventeen-year marriage. Their 'intellectual companionship' long over, Connie and her bullying husband Howard, a plant physiologist, fight so much their home 'reflects a Middle East battle zone,' with their two children the victims of their constant arguing. Complicating things further is...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.1993

Hungry for Light: The Journals of Ethel Schwabacher (edited)

The journal of this Abstract Expressionist, covering the years 1967 through 1980, details the artist's creative process and her awareness of her aging and impending death. Co-edited with Judith E. Johnson.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1984

Blake's Prophetic Psychology

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.1973

Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study

This extraordinary study traces the complex connections between the traumatic memories of Yeats' childhood and recurrent themes in his work. A consistent, impressively documented, and wholly original view of the workings of the poet's mind.

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Tattoo Bird

Tatto Bird is a short story collection comprised of eleven stories. The title story received an Honorable Mention (second prize) in the H.E. Francis Short Story Competition held by the Ruth Hindman Foundation. It was also twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Apr.25.2014 - 3:16 pm

A metaphysical approach to Parkinsons

It has been years since Parkinsons disease was defined as a movement disorder: shaking, freezing, falling. unable to go through doors. What? Doors. Why? It's tempting to give a...

Apr.23.2014 - 6:28 pm

Interview with Jim Foster at the Patriot

I want to thank Jim Foster for an interview that almost made me cry. He read a page of my novel AFTER AUSCHWITZ:A LOVE STORY with just the right degree of feeling. It was...

Jan.10.2014 - 6:07 pm

A Response to the Story of J.T. Leroy on The Moth

Laura Albert's video on The Moth was remarkable. When she started speaking, I could barely hear her voice then gradually it got stronger as she found her vocation and her true...

Dec.18.2013 - 10:40 am

Is There Such a Thing as Gay Art?

Recently I was discussing John Banville's prize winning book, The Untouchables with my book group. Someone brought up the question of whether or not there is a specifically "gay"...

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Sep.10.2011 - 9:36 am

In response to: Tit for Tat: A new look at Sir Gawain

Sir Gawain

Belated thanks Richard...I have been so lazy about posting but there is a neat article just out in Psychoanalysis...

Feb.18.2011 - 2:34 pm

In response to: Freud on Trial

Truth, Memory and Art

The interest in a fresh look at Freud and his legacy continues. My co-author and I have just been invited to present a...

Feb.04.2010 - 11:37 am

In response to: Freud on Trial

Freud on Trial

Blair thanks for your comment. One small repercussion was the New Yorker Book Bench blog just ran a piece yesterday on...

Jan.08.2010 - 4:11 pm

In response to: Leonard Lopate Show

Kindle

And someone just told me I'm on Kindle. Great day.

Dec.16.2009 - 9:33 pm

In response to: Cover up on the Couch

kafka and Freud

Kafka is probably less controversial but if you look at my reviews on redroom you can see what various critics have...

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Article: Brenda Webster Supports the Freedom to Write

Article: NEW! The New Yorker Book Bench Blog: Bossing Freud Around

Article: NEW! Eileen Malone interviews Brenda Webster for "Pen Women Presents"

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Vienna Triangle

Published by psychoPEDIA

Vienna Triangle is a brilliant novel that combines fact with the author's ingenious imagination to bring to life the historical figures of Freud and his disciples through the...

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Audio: Jim Foster, Conversations On The Coast, April 21, 2014

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About Brenda

Brenda Webster, author of the forthcoming novel, AFTER AUSCHWITZ: A Love Story (Wings Press, March 3, 2014) was born in New York City, educated at Swarthmore College, Barnard, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her...

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Brenda Webster
Novelist, critic, and translator