Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of the novels Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn, and Two-Part Inventions, among other works of fiction and nonfiction. Her third collection of poems, No Way Out But Through, will be published in the spring by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Building Lives on Sand: On Natalia Ginzburg’s “Family” and “Borghesia”

Lynne Sharon Schwartz reflects on meeting Natalia Ginzburg, maintaining a life-long relationship to her work, and reading “Family” and “Borghesia” in translation....

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ

FICTION

Text and Texture

Great works of fiction have a consistency, a firmness and density that can be touched....

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ

LITERARY CRITICISM

“The Way Life Happens”: On Laura Esther Wolfson’s “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors”

Lynne Sharon Schwartz praises “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors,” a collection of personal essays by Laura Esther Wolfson....

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ

AROUND THE WORLD

MEMOIR & ESSAY