Tag: Cynthia Ozick

• July 31, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms: Oatmeal Cookies from The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

  Cynthia Ozick’s book is a veritable treasure trove of unique Baking for Bookworms worthy dishes. It’s not that there’s such an amazing number of dishes mentioned, but the ones in the book are just such a far cry from eggs and toast. Each stage of Ruth Puttermesser’s life, a different dish is important to her, […]
• July 21, 2015

  Women Writers Reading Challenge #28: The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

  Some books rush by, leaving little impression. Others linger, force you to examine them a bit more slowly. Cynthia Ozick’s book demands this consideration. It somehow manages to be a recounting of the most mundane and the most fantastic and surreal, where golems are mentioned in the same breath as city corruption and Russian immigration. […]