Joseph Kaufman
Angst (from the diary of Joseph Kaufman)
It is difficult to describe the degree and nature of tension which aggravates the fault line between being a religious man and writer of fiction. Call it a type of existential strife, a goading and constant friction, a frustrating...
Read more of this articleMore Memories of Bernard Malamud
As a senior at Bennington College, I fumbled around for a post-graduation plan which would allow me to write. I observed Mr. Malamud closely then, as if to construct some tableau of sustaining memory of what a real writer looked...
Read more of this articleThrees, the Third, at Bennington College
From the Diary of Joseph Kaufman. It was at Bennington College, formerly an all-woman’s school gone co-ed seven years previous–450 women and 150 men at the time of my attendance–that I met my third great writing...
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