On this Mother’s Week edition of You Are What You Read, we are in conversation with literary superstar, short story stylist, and beloved mother, grandmother, author and friend, Hilma Wolitzer. Hilma wrote her first published work when she was nine years old. It was a poem about winter in the Junior Inspector’s Club Journal, sponsored by the New York City Department of Sanitation. Now at 94 years old, Hilma is the author of bestselling novels which include An Available Man, Summer Reading, The Doctor’s Daughter, and her latest short story collection, Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket. Hilma is a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University. This is a conversation with Hilma's wit, warmth and understanding that you must share with the mother figures in your life.
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