MARRIAGE AND... | Perle Besserman
The best of Perle Besserman’s short fiction now collected in a portable ebook: “Marriage and Other Travesties of Love” — “The Woman in Red” — “Nelly” — “Nothing is Reviled” — “The Wrong Stop” — “The Last Good Witch in New York” — “Death by Drowning”
MARRIAGE AND OTHER TRAVESTIES OF LOVE
Recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award and past writer-in-residence at the Mishkenot Sha'ananim Artist Colony in Jerusalem, Pushcart Prize nominee Perle Besserman was praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the “clarity and feeling for mystic lore” of her writing and by Publisher’s Weekly for its “wisdom [that] points to a universal practice of the heart.” Her books include Oriental Mystics and Magicians, The Way of Witches, Monsters: Their Histories, Homes and Habits (Doubleday), The Private Labyrinth of Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano and the Cabbala (Holt), Kabbalah: The Way of the Jewish Mystic (Doubleday/Shambhala/ Barnes and Noble), The Way of the Jewish Mystics (Shambhala/Random House), Crazy Clouds: Zen Radicals, Rebels and Reformers (Manfred Steger, co-author, Shambhala/Random House), Owning It: Zen and the Art of Facing Life (Kodansha), The Shambhala Guide to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism (Shambhala/Random House), Teachings of the Jewish Mystics (Shambhala/Random House), and Grassroots Zen (Manfred Steger, co-author, Tuttle).
Her novel, Pilgrimage, was published by Houghton Mifflin, and her forthcoming story collection, Marriage and Other Travesties of Love, by Cantarabooks. Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, The Nebraska Review, Briarcliff Review, Transatlantic Review, 13th Moon, Bamboo Ridge, Lilith, Hurricane Alice, Crab Creek Review, Other Voices, Agni, Southerly, Page Seventeen, Midstream, The Oddville Press, Dark Sky Magazine, The Sylvan Echo, Prick of the Spindle, and Mixed Nerve. She has written for publications as varied as Mademoiselle, Manoa (Honolulu), The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, A Different Drummer, Canadian Literature, and East West. Her most recent books of creative non-fiction are A New Kabblah for Women (Palgrave and Griffin Paperback Edition), and A New Zen for Women (Palgrave, and Sony e-book edition).
Besserman’s books have been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Czech, Italian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, and Thai. The audio book version of Kabbalah: The Way of the Jewish Mystic was recorded by Sounds True Audio Editions, Boulder, Colorado. She has appeared on national and international radio and television as well as in two Canadian documentary films. Currently, dividing her time between Melbourne, Australia and Honolulu, Hawai’i, she frequently travels throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East in connection with her work.
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