Kim Chernin
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Who I am:
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Please visit my website www.kimchernin.com
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Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
I have published 15 books. I'll list the major books.
The Obsession
In My Mother's House
The Flame Bearers
The Hungry Self
Reinventing Eve
My Life as a Boy
Crossing the Border
The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back
Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine.
Media outlets that I currently write for:
Tikkun
My writing is:
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir
Services I offer to other writers:
I am an experienced editor, helping writers conceptualize , realize and publish their projects.
I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
Yes. Diane Middlebrook Salon
My professional associations:
Association for the Integration of the Whole Person

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Kim Chernin left a comment for Kim Chernin
"I so much appreciate your reader-advice on this; I will follow it. And of course, if you'd like, show it to your sister. Although you may want to wait until I've fiddled and scrubbed some? Either way, you have my enthusiastic approval for…"
Dec 18, 2009
Karen Sosnoski left a comment for Kim Chernin
"Hi Kim, Re. "scrubbing anxiety" (love the phrase and see its application to just about everything I write :-)] from the first few pages of your manuscript--I think it would be fine, even exciting, to see a scene later on of what you do,…"
Dec 18, 2009
Rosy Aronson left a comment for Kim Chernin
"Hi Kim! Thanks so much for the warm welcome. And yes, I just recently decided to dip my exploratory toes in the SheWrites group waters. Amazing this one has grown so quickly!!! It felt like a good healthy stretch for me to consider myself worthy of…"
Dec 15, 2009
Kim Chernin left a comment for Rosy Aronson
"Hi Rosy, how nice to see you here on Jewish Writers. When I joined there were two people, now, only a couple of months later, we close to sixty! Very welcome... Kim"
Dec 15, 2009
Karen Sosnoski left a comment for Kim Chernin
"Great! Please send my manuscript to krsosnoski@gmail.com. Looking fwd. To reading it. More soon... Karen"
Dec 12, 2009
Kim Chernin left a comment for Karen Sosnoski
"Hi Karen, I'm going to send you the e-manusript about sister-haunting today. Just let me know for sure to what address I should send it to...Any reading, any response you have will be welcome, I don't have a particular need for a…"
Dec 12, 2009
Kim Chernin left a comment for Deborah Greniman
"Thanks Debbie, glad it arrived. I will be very interested in your response. Warmly, Kim"
Dec 11, 2009
Deborah Greniman left a comment for Kim Chernin
"Hi Kim! I just received your book and am looking forward to reading it! Looks like plenty of food for thought. I'll also see who'll "bite" on the possibility of a review. -- Best, Debbie"
Dec 11, 2009
Karen Sosnoski left a comment for Kim Chernin
"Dear Kim, I'm so glad! Just send the manuscript by email when you're ready. I looked at my dissertation. I may just send a chapter or two that are about you if I can find them on computer file to email. Otherwise I may just mail you a few…"
Dec 10, 2009
Kim Chernin left a comment for Karen Sosnoski
"Hi Karen, I'm so glad you like the coincidence. Truth is, I'd love to send you the recent manuscript...I'm going through it again, as I do periodically, to tighten up the language, one of the incredible advantages for me about not…"
Dec 10, 2009
Karen Sosnoski left a comment for Kim Chernin
"That's so strange and kind of wonderful--I love mysteries like this that are real--the coincidence or connection of you having your own sister haunting and writing a personal book about it while I used your writing on mothers/daughters/hunger…"
Dec 9, 2009
Kim Chernin left a comment for Karen Sosnoski
"Hi Karen, I forgot to mention that I have recently completed a book about sister-haunting, i.e. my life-long obsession with my sister who died when I was 4 years old. I don't know if I intend to publish it, but it seems to have put to rest a…"
Dec 9, 2009
Deborah Greniman left a comment for Kim Chernin
"Dear Kim, That would be great! I can ask the book review editor at Lilith if they'd be interested in a review (I've already reviewed two books for them, so we're in touch); and if they're not, I can ask the editor of Bridges…"
Dec 3, 2009
Kim Chernin left a comment for Karen Sosnoski
"Hi Karen, welcome to SheWrites and thank you so much for your words. I am honored, truly honored and so pleased to have participated in your doctoral work. Your new writing is fascinating to me...I'll look further, for sure. Good to be in…"
Dec 3, 2009
Karen Sosnoski left a comment for Kim Chernin
"Hi Kim, I was excited to see your name pop up on this network as (years ago) I wrote my doctoral dissertation (Brandeis) on "SIster Haunting and Female Hunger in Contemporary American Fiction by Women." I identified an emerging culturally…"
Dec 3, 2009
Kim Chernin left a comment for Deborah Greniman
"Hi Deborah, I'd be very grateful for such a review perhaps especially to Lilith. I don't know Bridges. My publishers did not send out any galleys, any at all, to any journals, they prefer to do on-line publicity (they say). I'm happy…"
Dec 3, 2009

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At 11:02am on December 18, 2009, Kim Chernin said…
I so much appreciate your reader-advice on this; I will follow it. And of course, if you'd like, show it to your sister. Although you may want to wait until I've fiddled and scrubbed some? Either way, you have my enthusiastic approval for the idea.
K
At 7:51am on December 18, 2009, Karen Sosnoski said…
Hi Kim, Re. "scrubbing anxiety" (love the phrase and see its application to just about everything I write :-)] from the first few pages of your manuscript--I think it would be fine, even exciting, to see a scene later on of what you do, how you procrastinate or whatever when you're feeling doubts about trying to write the life your sister never led. It *is* a radical thing to be doing. But I think if you just launch into the fictional memoir first, you'll have already proved to us it can be done before you show this shadow side. You handle other radical moves with such confidence and with no second guessing. Your spiritual connection with your sister, it's stages and meaning, you write with grace, clarity, and authority and so even those of us coming from a tradition that privileges logic and the material world feel an opening up. I think in the first few pages, it's a matter of cutting a bit more rather than revising. Your sister's tree and her charging you to write the life she didn't have are powerful images and a great place to start even if the reader doesn't quite yet know what you're about to do. I'll make suggestions on the page when I get back to it. The whole project is exciting. I keep thinking I'd love to have my own sister read it....Karen
At 4:13pm on December 15, 2009, Rosy Aronson said…
Hi Kim! Thanks so much for the warm welcome.

And yes, I just recently decided to dip my exploratory toes in the SheWrites group waters. Amazing this one has grown so quickly!!! It felt like a good healthy stretch for me to consider myself worthy of this group, even though the Jewishness in my writing isn't necessarily flashing with red lights. : )

I miss you and Renate very much, and think of you often and fondly. Big big hug to you, and enjoy this holiday season...

Love,
Rosy
At 12:16pm on December 12, 2009, Karen Sosnoski said…
Great! Please send my manuscript to krsosnoski@gmail.com. Looking fwd. To reading it. More soon... Karen
At 4:40am on December 11, 2009, Deborah Greniman said…
Hi Kim! I just received your book and am looking forward to reading it! Looks like plenty of food for thought. I'll also see who'll "bite" on the possibility of a review. -- Best, Debbie
At 11:39am on December 10, 2009, Karen Sosnoski said…
Dear Kim,
I'm so glad! Just send the manuscript by email when you're ready. I looked at my dissertation. I may just send a chapter or two that are about you if I can find them on computer file to email. Otherwise I may just mail you a few pages that I think will be of interest to you. The whole thing is way too long--I can't even get through it and I only have to skim. But I think you might be interested in reading a few pages of my book in progress, and a blog post I'm going to put up next week (about the movie Precious), so I'll get a few things like that together for you. I really can't wait to read "My SIster and the Kabbalist." Let me know what kind of feedback will be most helpful to you. Thanks! Karen
At 11:48am on December 9, 2009, Karen Sosnoski said…
That's so strange and kind of wonderful--I love mysteries like this that are real--the coincidence or connection of you having your own sister haunting and writing a personal book about it while I used your writing on mothers/daughters/hunger to identify a sister-haunting myth in other women's fictions. Is there any way I could read your book or parts of it, even if you don't (yet) want to publish it? I'm just so curious....I would be happy to mail you a copy of my dissertation--(unless I can find a draft on my computer) for you to skim. (If you do want to look at it, you'll have to promise to read one or two short pieces I've written recently as well--the ideas in the dissertation are good, I think, but the writing is not.) You know the really strange thing is that I remember trying to find your phone number years ago, right after I'd finished my dissertation, when I was in San Francisco, CA. I had some idea about interviewing you for something but I don't remember what...usually I just have hunches that I want to write about or at least meet people and about 1/4 of the time it manifests in something on paper or radio. Don't worry though, I would never write about unpublished material without an author's consent and I'm the opposite of pushy. I'm just happy to be meeting you this way and have this feeling that I'm going to find a resolution to whatever questions were propelling my dissertation.
At 2:54pm on December 3, 2009, Deborah Greniman said…
Dear Kim,

That would be great! I can ask the book review editor at Lilith if they'd be interested in a review (I've already reviewed two books for them, so we're in touch); and if they're not, I can ask the editor of Bridges (who might be even more interested, since they're more politically oriented).

My address is: 13 Ein Gedi St., Jerusalem 93383, Israel.

This list is great! From faraway Israel, I feel at right at home.
At 1:33pm on December 3, 2009, Karen Sosnoski said…
Hi Kim, I was excited to see your name pop up on this network as (years ago) I wrote my doctoral dissertation (Brandeis) on "SIster Haunting and Female Hunger in Contemporary American Fiction by Women." I identified an emerging culturally grounded myth in the fictions that I studied and your work, particularly in Reinventing Eve, informed my conclusion. I'm writing quite different stuff now and it looks like you are too, but again I'm happy to be reminded of your writing and look forward to checking out your newer work. Best! Karen
At 11:51pm on December 2, 2009, Deborah Greniman said…
I'd be happy to review your book -- perhaps for Bridges or Lilith, if you haven't nailed those down yet?

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Posted on November 12, 2009 at 12:30am 0 Comments

Dear Michelle, although we've never met, I thought I'd write to you directly. I had many responses to your novel as I was reading; I'll try to catch hold of some of them. I think what I loved best was the seamless way in which a personal story, a family story, a Jewish story, a story of the Jewish community and its ways was woven into the larger historic background of the 13th Century. You were able to give a visceral sense of Jewish life, both as… Continue

Small Publishing Groups: Yeah!

Posted on October 26, 2009 at 1:57pm 3 Comments

Jennifer, congratulations on your book and your publishing house. I support your thinking and your ideas whole-heartedly. Some years ago, a few friends and I started a collective publishing effort we called EdgeWork Books. The cost then of producing the books made them terribly expensive. They did sell, just not enough to cover our expenses. In the first year we put out ten books! With this experience behind me, I am interested in with what you are doing. The whole publishing world has changed,… Continue

Michelle Cameron's book: The Fruit of her Hands

Posted on September 17, 2009 at 8:01pm 0 Comments

Comment by Kim Chernin 5 hours ago

Michelle: I had many responses to your novel as I was reading; I’ll try to catch hold of some of them. I called it “stupendous” because I wanted to express what I think is its level of achievement: high, high, way up there, a really significant book. I think what I loved best was the seamless way in which a personal story, a family story, a Jewish story, a story of the Jewish community and its ways were woven into the larger historic background of the… Continue

Is there progress in Israell-Palestine?

Posted on August 20, 2009 at 7:30pm 0 Comments

Hello, this is the first blog I've ever written, so I don't yet know the form. I think I just want to go down on record as being quite cynical about the so-called progress that our government seems to be making in stopping the building of settlements in the West Bank. As I've read the media, it is supposed to be important, and a sign of things improving, that no new settlements have been started since March, when the new government was elected. But, as we are also told, the settlements… Continue
 
 
 

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