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

"Binnie is sneaky like that. 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