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I also asked Krasikov what she planned to do with her prize money — and whether, like one of the characters in her story “Maia in Yonkers,” she coveted an expensive puffy black jacket.

Of Jewish Interest? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

I also asked Krasikov what she planned to do with her prize money — and whether, like one of the characters in her story “Maia in Yonkers,” she coveted an expensive puffy black jacket.

Of Jewish Interest? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Krasikov is Jewish, a Google search revealed, and her book contains some Jewish characters — but it also contains Muslim ones and secular agnostic ones and, overwhelmingly, characters without any label at all.

Of Jewish Interest? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Krasikov is Jewish, a Google search revealed, and her book contains some Jewish characters — but it also contains Muslim ones and secular agnostic ones and, overwhelmingly, characters without any label at all.

Of Jewish Interest? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Indeed, when I asked Krasikov whether she saw “One More Year” as an overtly Jewish collection, her careful and thoughtful answer suggested that, in literature as in life, it can be tricky to make distinctions at all:

Of Jewish Interest? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Maybe, instead of asking Krasikov whether she saw “One More Year” as a Jewish collection, I should have asked the judges why they did.

Of Jewish Interest? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Indeed, when I asked Krasikov whether she saw “One More Year” as an overtly Jewish collection, her careful and thoughtful answer suggested that, in literature as in life, it can be tricky to make distinctions at all:

Of Jewish Interest? - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Like many of the major characters in One More Year, Krasikov was born in the former Soviet Republic.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

Krasikov tackles relationships of varying degrees from the subtleties of marriage to the bonds between a mother and her child.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008