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Tenement Buldings

The Artfulness of Women – Chapter Two

August 13, 2019 by Naomi Weiss

Chapter Two   Blues Diva     Bayla could never say when she first heard the blues. Perhaps their wail and words penetrated thin apartment walls in her tenement building overrun with German and Hungarian immigrants. Or maybe during Augusts' stifling heat, the deep soulful sounds of the blues oozed from a radio or a record player out an opened window. Blues came to her gentle and easy with a certainty in their lingering, and a mounting up that spoke to her the more …

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Victorian Entry

The Artfulness of Women – a forthcoming novel by Naomi Weiss

August 13, 2019 by Naomi Weiss

~ Synopsis ~ From one woman’s epic journey out of Eastern Europe in 1904, to New York City's tenement life in the 30's, to a Victorian mansion in a Pennsylvania steel town and stardom in the 70's, The Artfulness of Women explores how each of her descendants refuses to compromise her childhood dream as their talent, sexuality and long-held family secrets are challenged by political, racial and social upheaval through the generations from World War II, racial prejudice, the heyday of the women’s …

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Newborn Baby

Bronx Girl – Excerpt 4 of 4

March 10, 2016 by Naomi Weiss

This post's content is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir 'Bronx Girl'. It was published on Splice Today as 'I Was the Outsider Looking In': http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/i-was-the-outsider-looking-in. One day my father picked me up from playing with my cousin Arlene at Aunt Dora’s house just outside of Parkchester and carried me most of the long walk home on his shoulders. High above the rest of the world, it felt extraordinary and never left my memory. As soon as he opened the …

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Abusive Parent

Bronx Girl – Excerpt 3 of 4

March 10, 2016 by Naomi Weiss

This post's content is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir 'Bronx Girl'. It was published on Splice Today as 'Loving Mother Anyway': http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/loving-mother-anyway. Some months after my third birthday, I committed an offense for which my mother decided required punishment. I don’t know if she pondered what she did ahead of time in preparation for a lesson I’d never forget, but in those days, irons were not in a solid state where the cord that plugs into the wall …

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Wait For Me Daddy

Bronx Girl – Excerpt 2 of 4

March 10, 2016 by Naomi Weiss

This post's content is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir 'Bronx Girl'. It was published on Splice Today as 'Learning I Have a Father': http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/learning-i-have-a-father. When I was barely 15 months old, with WWII raging, the U.S. Army realized it was running out of men to fight Nazis. So they drafted my 35-year-old father on May 17, 1943. Despite years of experience selecting suitable men for the armed forces, they failed to recognize their mistake—expecting my …

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Uptown, The Bronx, Queens

Bronx Girl – Excerpt 1 of 4

March 10, 2016 by Naomi Weiss

This post's content is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir 'Bronx Girl'. It was published on Splice Today as 'The 12 O'Clock Siren': http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/the-12-o-clock-siren. Whenever my mother told the story, she always began with, “You were supposed to be born January 23.” I hadn’t entered the world yet and already I’m wrong. “On Friday, Christmas Day,” she’d say, “your father gets this idea to visit his Hungarian cousins, Morris and Irna, in Queens. You know what a …

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Links to Naomi’s Recent Work

I Come From The World

Earplugs

https://icomefromtheworld.org/earplugs/

Splice Today

The 12 O’Clock Siren

https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/the-12-o-clock-siren

Splice Today

Learning I Have a Father

https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/learning-i-have-a-father

Montgomery Magazine

Where Have All The Bats Gone?

https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=440857#{%22issue_id%22:440857,%22page%22:66}

Furious Gravity, an anthology of stories by D.C. Women Writers

My Mother’s Rages

https://naomiweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/My-Mothers-Rages.pdf

Women’s National Book Association

Earplugs

https://wnba-books.org/third-place-for-creative-nonfiction-in-the-2020-wnba-writing-contest

NIV Magazine

My Mother Tells the Story of My Birth

https://nivmag.com/mother-tells-story-my-birth
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