The Sophie Horowitz Story by Sarah Schulman

Schulmanâ€™s fictional â€œtoursâ€ of gay and Jewish spaces of lower New York both memorialize and construct these intertwined communities.

Were you conscious of turning away from writing that kind of book Schulman: No.

Rumpus: People like Ellen Hart and Mary Wings came a few years after. Even while Schulmanâ€™s characters move through streets rich with references to both Jewish and gay communities, those references increasingly nod to the past, as Jews move out of â€œthe cityâ€ to the suburbs and to other cities, and gentrification threatens the economic viability of lesbians and gay men living on capitalismâ€™s margins. Schulman: Sophie Horowitz was the third lesbian detective novel and I wasn’t aware of any of the others. She holds an endowed chair in Nonfiction at Northwestern University and is a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities. View Plays Biography Sarah Schulman is a playwright, novelist and journalist. Her plays include Carson McCullers (2002) and Manic Flight Reaction (2005), both produced at Playwrights Horizons, and the theatrical adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Enemies, A Love Story. Variant sexuality and minority ethnicity inform and amplify each other, as metaphors drawn from Jewish culture find their way into descriptions of queer life, and gay references function as comments on Jewish existence. Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, gay activist, and AIDS historian. Sarah Schulman is a playwright, novelist and journalist.

more Novelist Sarah Schulmanâ€™s characters inhabit southern Manhattanâ€™s lower East Side and the East Village, drawing on real and imagined histories of Jewish and gay activism and creativity in their search for physical and cultural space in which they can experiment with sexuality, art, and politics. Novelist Sarah Schulmanâ€™s characters inhabit southern Manhattanâ€™s lower East Side and the Eas.

The Sophie Horowitz Story by Sarah Schulman