Honeydew: Stories by Edith Pearlman
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Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O’Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration.
Meet the Jewish Bubbe Who Happens to Be a Literary Genius
It’s a beautiful thing when a writer gets discovered. Especially when the writer is a Jewish grandmother in her seventies who has spent a lifetime mastering the art of the short story—an effort for which she is only now being recognized.
Since her first publication in 1969, Edith Pearlman has published around 200 stories, most in little-known journals. Her 2011 collection Binocular Vision finally broke out. The book became the first ever to be a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle award—which it won—as well as the LA Times Book Prize and The Story Prize.
Sadly, treatments for cancer have left Pearlman unable to write since early 2014. The good news, though, is that her new collection, Honeydew, came out early this year, to gushing acclaim, like this New York Times review.
