about the author

Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of two short story collections and five novels. She is a professor of fiction writing at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts and lives with her husband in New York City.

"Binnie Kirshenbaum is a rare and remarkable writer." ---Michael Cunningham

"...the younger sister of Philip Roth...." ---Carlin Romano

"A tremendous talent. Her novels are sexy, intelligent, complex, and provocative; they press against your heart the way old lovers do." ---Junot Diaz

"...Kirshenbaum, the prolific writer of novels and stories written with wit and serious moral concern...is a presence to be reckoned with. One of her charms is that vestigial ladylike manner of a young woman who deports herself properly, aims for grace....(A) novelist of enormous cultural reach....the voice of a writer, known, or on the endless journey to knowing herself." ---Maureen Howard

"Not many young female novelists can deal with sex, the appetite for it, and the loss of such appetite, with such candor, lack of self-protection, and humor as Binnie Kirshenbaum." ---Norman Mailer

"Just when you think it is safe to laugh, she turns the tables on you. The funnier her books get, the more poignant they are." ---Tova Mirvis

"In person, Binnie is much like her writing unpretentious, wise, and funny." --- Aaron Hamburger

"This author (Kirshenbaum) is indeed a humorist, even a comedian, a sort of stand-up tragic." ---Richard Howard

photo by Marion Ettlinger