I’ve been neglecting the Hereville blogging for the last few weeks, and I have a bunch of articles to link to!<\/p>\n
Today, I’ll link to a series of four (!) articles by Christian Lipski in The Portland Examiner<\/em>. First, there’s Christian’s detailed report of the Premiereville event<\/a> at Powell’s on Hawthorne. (I posted some photos of the event here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n Although he got 100 details right, Christian did get one small fact wrong — my friend Jenn Frederick, who read the part of Gittel at Premiereville, isn’t my sister. But Christian’s article has made me realize that when I eventually do a reading in Ithaca, New York, I have got <\/em>to make my real-life older sister Allison Andersen read the part of Mirka’s older sister Gittel!<\/p>\n The Portland Examiner also published a three-part interview Christian conducted with me. Unlike most interviewers, who interview me by email (thus saving themselves the transcribing work), Christian interviewed me by phone — he says that the results of phone interviews are extra-lively enough to justify the extra work.<\/p>\n Part one of the interview (entitled “An Unfinished End<\/a>“), in which we discuss how Hereville was sold, can be found here<\/a>. Part two, about Hereville and sexism, and also about the joy of huge open mouths, can be found here. <\/a>And part three, about the perils of using photo reference when drawing, and about the next Hereville book, can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s a little bit from part two:<\/p>\n …in Hasidic culture, the boys and girls are so separated there are so many years where essentially, other than their immediate male family, they\u2019re growing up in an all-girl society. Everyone they socialize with other than their brothers and their father is female. Stephanie Levine, an anthropologist, wrote a book<\/a> about the lives of teen Hasidic girls, and argues that kind of as a result of this separation they are incredibly spirited and in some ways more free than girls growing up in mainstream society. The point where having a boyfriend becomes important and you\u2019re dressing and acting in a certain way so that the boys like you gets stalled for years in Hasidic culture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A big thank you for Christian Lipski for all this writing about Hereville<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been neglecting the Hereville blogging for the last few weeks, and I have a bunch of articles to link to! Today, I’ll link to a series of four (!) articles by Christian Lipski in The Portland Examiner. First, there’s Christian’s detailed report of the Premiereville event at Powell’s on Hawthorne. (I posted some photos […] Continue reading \n