Let’s Get Lit

LET’S GET LIT: Three Ladies, Three Lattes

November 21, 2014

Three Ladies, Three Lattes: Percolating Discussions in the Holy Land’s authors Pamela Peled, Tzippi Sha-ked, and Danit Shemesh, join us in the studio.

LET’S GET LIT: Separating the sacred from the mundane

October 31, 2014

Jane Medved reads from her latest collection of poems Olam, Shana, Nefesh. She also talks about the practice of writing poetry and shares her fascination with King Herod.

LET’S GET LIT: Elana Sztokman and the war on women

October 24, 2014

Jewish Orthodox feminist, activist, and author Elana Maryles Sztokman talks about her latest book on this week’s Let’s Get Lit.

LET’S GET LIT: The poetry of observation

October 3, 2014

Joanna Chen, a poet and essayist, talks about the journalistic qualities that have helped grow her writing in a poetic direction.

LET’S GET LIT: Abracadabra! When words create a world

August 30, 2014

Host Ilene Prusher interviews award-winning poet, professor and editor Karen Alkalay Gut.

LET’S GET LIT: Building bridges

August 23, 2014

In her debut novel ‘Ishmael’s Oranges,’ author Claire Hajaj talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in both literary and personal terms.

LET’S GET LIT: A trip to Judy Labensohn’s Writing Gym

August 15, 2014

Essayist and creative non-fiction writer Judy Labensohn reads from her story, “Follow Me: A Mother’s Day in the Israeli Army.”

LET’S GET LIT: Writer and Prof. Nissim Calderon shares his views of the conflict

August 10, 2014

Professor Nissim Calderon, a writer and professor of Hebrew literature at Ben Gurion University, shares his views of the conflict, Amos Oz’s surprising statement to German radio station, and the songs we listen to in wartime.

LET’S GET LIT: Love & Longing amid the uncertainty

July 11, 2014

Host Ilene Prusher interviews author Yael Unterman, who reads from her recently published short-story collection, ‘The Hidden of Things: Twelve Stories of Love & Longing.’

LET’S GET LIT: A Story on Every Streetcorner

June 13, 2014 0:22:57

Host Ilene Prusher interviews writer David Erlich, who talks about inspiration from the mundane, his most recent story collection and his beloved Jerusalem literary cafe.