Friday January 6, 2006

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Today's birthday:
E. L. Doctorow, author of
City of God

"… I don't write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters. My collection of short stories, Strange Attractors, contained nine pieces, five of which were, to some degree, Jewish, and this ratio has provided me with a precise mathematical answer (for me, still the best kind of answer) to the question of whether I am a Jewish writer. I am five-ninths a Jewish writer."
 

— Rebecca Goldstein,
"Against Logic"
 

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