Faye Moskowitz’s, PEACE IN THE HOUSE: TALES FROM A YIDDISH KITCHEN; autobiographical stories about the “old” world and the new.

Tillie Olson’s, TELL ME A RIDDLE; four stories about poverty, sacrifice, and ambivalence about motherhood.

Abigail Pogrebin’s, STARS OF DAVID: PROMINENT JEWS TALK ABOUT BEING JEWISH; sixty-two interviews: from Joan Rivers, William Shatner, and Kenneth Cole; to Kyra Sedgwick, Ed Koch, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Joan Didion’s, THE WHITE ALBUM: ESSAYS; all about the 60s, Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, Doris Lessing and Georgia O’Keeffe.