SMALL TALK

By Zhanna Slor

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Amazon.com: At the End of the World, Turn Left eBook: Slor, Zhanna: Kindle Store

My book is now available for pre-order!

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A Jewish defense of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

Ron Howard's adaptation of J.D. Vance's book has been widely derided as poverty porn, but a Jewish reading yields something far-more nuanced.

Another piece for The Forward

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In ‘Raised by Wolves,’ a warning about our pandemic isolation

The family at the center of HBO’s dystopian drama is a lot like us — or what could soon happen to us.

An article I wrote for the Forward

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Checking For Mail

In bed, upon waking, windows still dark with night. In the kitchen, while grinding coffee beans from nearby Milwaukee roastery. In the bathroom, twice.

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A trip to Ukraine helped this writer decide to have children.

A blog I wrote

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At the End of the World, Turn Left

Zhanna Slor's debut novel, a unique literary mystery set in Milwaukee's eclectic Riverwest neighborhood during the 2008 recession, weaves...

If it’s on Goodreads, then it’s real!

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YESSS

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Why Russia’s most popular cartoon is strangely relevant now

Re-watching “Ny Pogodi” helps me see the bright side in things, as well as offering some solace.

New article in The Forward! I did the painting as well.

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All day long Polina sat anxiously waiting in her neighbors’ apartment, with its cracked windowpanes and boiling sausages, filled wall to wall with beds, piles of clothing, and damp water buckets sw…

An essay of mine published in Michigan Quarterly Review

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http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/8602/The-One-with-a-Country

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As I was saying…why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?”

George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones

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Because Graham had come to believe that people were only happy when they could feel one emotion at a time. That was the reason that things that had provoked such pure joy in childhood—fresh chocolate-chip cookies, a sweatshirt warm from the dryer, a perfect sand castle—did not offer the same joy in adulthood. You were too busy having all these other tiresome emotions about income tax and drunken texts and varicose veins and how much money was in the parking meter.

Katherine Heiny, Standard Deviation.

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Do you know how when people are really hungry they will be driven to eat the inedible? Grass and soil and the like? That also happens with love. If you want love badly enough, you will start gobbling harmful substitutes like attention and possessions.

Alissa Nutting, Made for Love

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I wake up the next morning and dress in all black, secret spy style. My mother eyes me and asks if I’m depressed, and I say, “No, I’m just cool.

Jami Attenberg. “All Grown Up.”

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People architect new lives all the time. I know this because I never see them again once they find these new lives.

Jami Attenberg. “All Grown Up.” 

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http://midwestgothic.com/2017/04/contributor-spotlight-zhanna-slor/

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https://www.amazon.com/Two-Countries-Daughters-Sons-Immigrant-Parents/dp/1597096067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490640440&sr=8-1&keywords=tina+schumann

Excited to have an essay featured in this anthology