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Bernard Malamud, the Glossary

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.^[1]

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A New Life (novel)

A New Life is a semi-autobiographical campus novel by Bernard Malamud first published in 1961.

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African-American literature

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent.

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Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Bernard Malamud and Alice Munro are O. Henry Award winners.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Jews

American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.

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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was a British writer and composer.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Assistant professor

Assistant professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

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Associate professor

Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the Commonwealth system.

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A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Bath Beach, Brooklyn

Bath Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located at the southwestern edge of the borough on Gravesend Bay.

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Bennington College

Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States.

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Borough Park, Brooklyn

Borough Park (also spelled Boro Park) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Centennial

A centennial, or centenary in British English, is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century, a period of an exact century.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Chelsea, Manhattan

Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, Israel and politics, as well as social and cultural issues.

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Conscience

A conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Ozick are American postmodern writers, Jewish American novelists, Jewish American short story writers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O. Henry Award winners and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners.

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Delicatessen

Traditionally, a delicatessen or deli is a grocery that sells a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Dubin's Lives

Dubin's Lives is the seventh published novel by the American writer Bernard Malamud.

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Edward P. Jones

Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. Bernard Malamud and Edward P. Jones are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O. Henry Award winners, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners.

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Erasmus Hall High School

Erasmus Hall High School was a four-year public high school located at 899–925 Flatbush Avenue between Church and Snyder Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Bernard Malamud and Eudora Welty are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award winners, O. Henry Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners.

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Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. Bernard Malamud and Flannery O'Connor are National Book Award winners and O. Henry Award winners.

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Flatbush

Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.

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God's Grace

God's Grace is the final novel (his eighth) written by American author Bernard Malamud, published in 1982 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Gravesend, Brooklyn

Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

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Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City.

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Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar is an American monthly women's fashion magazine.

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History of the Jews in Russia

The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.

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Humanism

Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

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IND Culver Line

The IND Culver Line (formerly BMT Culver Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway, extending from Downtown Brooklyn south to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, United States.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Bernard Malamud and Isaac Bashevis Singer are Jewish American novelists, Jewish American short story writers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award winners and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners.

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Janna Malamud Smith

Janna Malamud Smith (born 1952) is an American non-fiction writer.

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Jewish Book Council

The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew), founded in 1944, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Bernard Malamud and John Updike are American postmodern writers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award winners, O. Henry Award winners, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners.

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Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. Bernard Malamud and Joseph Heller are American agnostics, Jewish American novelists, Jewish American short story writers, Jewish agnostics, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Writers from Brooklyn.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Bernard Malamud and Joyce Carol Oates are American humanists, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award winners, O. Henry Award winners and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners.

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Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located south of Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Lafayette High School (New York City)

Lafayette High School was a large secondary school located in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, New York.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Lincoln Towers

Lincoln Towers is an apartment complex on the Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan that consists of six buildings with eight addresses on a campus.

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Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer, critic, and essayist. Bernard Malamud and Lorrie Moore are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O. Henry Award winners and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Maxim Lieber

Maxim Lieber (October 15, 1897 – April 10, 1993) was a prominent American literary agent in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s.

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McDonald Avenue

McDonald Avenue is a north-south street in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery, located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United States.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established with the goal "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc.,Edwin McDowell.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norman Mailer

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. Bernard Malamud and Norman Mailer are American postmodern writers, Jewish American novelists, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. Bernard Malamud and o. Henry Award are O. Henry Award winners.

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Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Partisan Review

Partisan Review (PR) was a left-wing small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City.

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PEN America

PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922, and headquartered in New York City, is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights.

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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living Americans, Green Card holders or permanent residents.

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PEN/Malamud Award

The PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award honors "excellence in the art of the short story".

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth are American postmodern writers, Jewish American novelists, Jewish American short story writers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award winners, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners.

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Pictures of Fidelman

Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition is the fifth published novel of Bernard Malamud.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American retired actor and filmmaker.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer. Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow are Jewish American novelists, Jewish American short story writers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Book Award winners, O. Henry Award winners and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners.

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Bernard Malamud and Sherman Alexie are American postmodern writers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O. Henry Award winners and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Substitute teacher

A substitute teacher is a person who teaches a school class when the regular teacher is absent or unavailable; e.g., because of illness, personal leave, maternal leave and so on.

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The Assistant (novel)

The Assistant is the second novel by Bernard Malamud, published in 1957.

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The Fixer (1968 film)

The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Georgia Brown.

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The Fixer (novel)

The Fixer is a novel by Bernard Malamud published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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The Jewbird

"The Jewbird" is a short story by the Jewish-American writer Bernard Malamud.

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The Magic Barrel

The Magic Barrel is a 1958 collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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The Mourners

Bernard Malamud’s short story "The Mourners” first appeared in Discovery in January 1955.

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The Natural

The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud, and is his debut novel.

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The Natural (film)

The Natural is a 1984 American sports film based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky and Richard Farnsworth.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Tenants (novel)

The Tenants is the sixth novel of Bernard Malamud, published in 1971.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.

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Tobias Wolff

Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. Bernard Malamud and Tobias Wolff are Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Malamud

Also known as Barnard Malamud, Malamudian.

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