Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman is the author of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke, $22.95 pb). In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. She describes the dusty roads through the West Bank, where Palestinians are cut off from water and subjected to endless restrictions while Israeli settler neighborhoods have full freedoms and resources. As Schulman learns more, she questions the contradiction between Israel's investment in presenting itself as gay friendly—financially sponsoring gay film festivals and parades—and its denial of the rights of Palestinians. At the same time, she talks with straight Palestinian activists about their position in relation to homosexuality and gay rights in Palestine and internationally. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The gentrification of the mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America. Linda Holtzman is the senior rabbi of Mishkan Shalom, a Reconstructionist synagogue in the Manayunk/Roxborough section of Philadelphia. A native Philadelphian who was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1979, Rabbi Holtzman has received a B.A. and M.A. in English from Temple University and a B.H.L. from Gratz College. She has served as the rabbi of Beth Israel, a Conservative congregation in Coatesville, Pa, as part-time rabbi of Beth Ahavah, the lgbt congregation in Philadelphia, as director of the religious school at Mishkan Shalom, and for many years as Associate Professor and Director of Practical Rabbinics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is also the organizer of the Reconstructionist Chevra Kadisha of Philadelphia, on the board of the New Sanctuary Movement in Philadelphia, on the steering committee of Heeding God’s Call, and one of the sponsoring clergy for POWER, an interfaith community organizing initiative in the city.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Sarah Schulman , The Mere Future.

The Mere Future Sparkling with wit and provocative social commentary, Sarah Schulman’s new novel crosses many genres, including literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry and stand-up comedy. In her dystopian vision, New York has morphed into an idealized version of itself. Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, and everyone works in Marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Meanwhile our heroine and her girlfriend, Nadine, just want to fall in love again, but can’t help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable. Schulman (People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia) is one of literature’s most important chroniclers of contemporary queer life. In The Mere Future, she invents a literature that is at once sexy and funny, while openheartedly reflecting the lives we live. (booksense)… (more)

Sarah Schulman , The Mere Future.

The Mere Future Sparkling with wit and provocative social commentary, Sarah Schulman’s new novel crosses many genres, including literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, and stand-up comedy. In her dystopian vision, New York has morphed into an “idealized” version of itself. Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, and everyone works in marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Meanwhile our heroine and her girlfriend just want to fall in love again, but can’t help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable. Schulman (People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia) is one of literature’s most important chroniclers of contemporary queer life. In The Mere Future, she invents a literature that is at once sexy and funny, while openheartedly reflecting the lives we live. We’ll also be celebrating the release of Schulman’s new book of non-fiction, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. (booksense)… (more)

Sarah Schulman reads from The Child: A Novel.

Author and journalist Sarah Schulman will be appearing at Books Inc. Market for a reading and signing of her new novel “The Child.”

“The Child,” a Lambda Literary Award finalist, is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia, based on the 1997 sexual assault and murder of an eleven-year-old boy by a fifteen-year-old.
Stew is a lonely teen who discovers love on an adult website. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his proclivities are revealed to his family and friends, to his horror. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for himself, he ends up committing murder.

Brazen and daring in its themes, "The Child" is a powerful indictment of sex panic in America, and a plaintive meditation on isolation and desire.

About the author:
Sarah Schulman is the author of eleven books, including eight novels, the latest being The Child (2006). As a journalist, her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and two American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Awards. She lives in New York.

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Sarah Schulman reads from The Child: A Novel.

Join acclaimed author and playwright Sarah Schulman for a reading and celebration of the re-release of her novel "Rat Bohemia" and the publication of her latest novel "The Child." Schulman's writing is brimming with wicked, urban humor and with haunting meditations on the prejudices surrounding lesbian and gay lives. (eromsted)… (more)