Years ago, my phone rang, at 2 AM, It was a friend, a well-known American poet, quite drunk. I woke up, I tried to focus on her words,Thanks for reading Carol Muske-Dukes! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. a little slurred. She had been paging through her address book, name by name, and found that she knew, suddenly and with certainty, that “if there was another Anschluss’ --
Wow, this is a knock-out, a punch to the gut. From your memory of the Jewish family whose hospitality saved your spirit, your soul, your sense of yourself as an intellectual and a writer, to your response to seeing Leopoldstatd. So powerful, Carol, thank you.
Carol, this piece is extraordinary for its personal revelations melding with the remembrance of that wonderful Gold family; with Stoppard and today's horrific realities. I thank the Golds that you became a writer, in spite of all.
Thank you for this powerful memory (and powerful writing) -- coincidentally yesterday was an anniversary of Kristallnacht. Sometime we may talk about this , but meanwhile your history meshes in an unusual way with mine. Judith Pacht
Wow, this is a knock-out, a punch to the gut. From your memory of the Jewish family whose hospitality saved your spirit, your soul, your sense of yourself as an intellectual and a writer, to your response to seeing Leopoldstatd. So powerful, Carol, thank you.
Carol, this piece is extraordinary for its personal revelations melding with the remembrance of that wonderful Gold family; with Stoppard and today's horrific realities. I thank the Golds that you became a writer, in spite of all.
Thank you for this powerful memory (and powerful writing) -- coincidentally yesterday was an anniversary of Kristallnacht. Sometime we may talk about this , but meanwhile your history meshes in an unusual way with mine. Judith Pacht