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Karen E. Bender :
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Karen E. Bender is the author of the novel Like Normal People (Houghton Mifflin), and co-editor of the anthology Choice (MacAdam/Cage). Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta and Zoetrope, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
October 8th, 2008
The Memorial
When a beloved family pet passes away, how do we help children face the reality of death?
We found out over the phone, while on vacation. The housesitter called us to tell us that he was at the animal hospital back home with our cat, Smokey. And then he put the ...
March 6th, 2008
My Fear of the Rabbi
A Reform Jew Explores Her Fear of Orthodoxy
We see Rabbi X. walking down the streets of our small Southern city, and we see others staring at him. He wears the outfit of a Jew from Eastern ...
December 9th, 2007
The Light, the Sword, and the Nintendo DS
One young family attempts to navigate the treacherous waters of Greedikah
The Maccabees didn't stand a chance against the catalogs that began to appear in in mid-November. Our children, Jonah and Maia, began to look through them as a ...
August 2nd, 2007
On Prayer
Our search for order in the darkness
A friend of mine just left her husband. She told me that she had been unhappy in the marriage for a long time but couldn't find a way ...
May 29th, 2006
Infinity Hands
Listening to my son talk about God
I was walking with my son, Jonah, who was six, and his friend, Jack, home from school. They were discussing Pokemon cards. "Chancey EX has 120 HP points," ...
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