Sarah Seltzer

Jan 13, 2025 | thejc.com | Sarah Seltzer |Jennifer Lipman

Life & Culture Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’ The music reverberates from the pages of this feminist journalist’s debut novel The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer Piatkus, £9.99 By the end of Sarah Seltzer’s debut novel I could almost hear the music reverberating from the pages, performed by the talented, battle-scarred women at its heart. Judie and Sylvia Zingerman, two nice Jewish girls who become 1960s folk music stars, may be fictional, but in...

Oct 8, 2024 | lilith.org | Judith Rosenbaum |Sarah Seltzer

In the video above, Judith Rosenbaum, CEO of the Jewish Women’s Archive, talks with Lilith Magazine staffer Sarah Seltzer about her book, The Singer Sisters, a novel that moves between ’60s folk clubs and ’90s music festivals, chronicling the ups and downs of stardom while asking what women artists must sacrifice for success. The talk took place on September 12, 2024.

Aug 16, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Sarah Seltzer

In 1964, recent high school graduate Judie Zingerman flees her parents’ comfortable home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the gritty streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village. Her dream? To follow in the footsteps of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and become a folk singer. Against the odds, she succeeds. But along the way, the mercurial, prickly woman at the center of Sarah Seltzer’s insightful debut novel discovers that for women, professional success and personal fulfillment are often at odds.

Aug 15, 2024 | csmonitor.com | Sarah Seltzer |Peter Heller |Harriet Constable |Yoko Ogawa

This month’s 10 best picks include novels that probe issues such as masculinity, reconciliation, ambition, and remembrance. They span historical eras from 18th-century Venice to 1960s America. Among the nonfiction titles is the story of a wrongly incarcerated man and the Texas legal system that kept him imprisoned for decades. And a history of bookstores in the United States explores how many of these shops served as centers for social change.

Aug 12, 2024 | businessinsider.com | Sarah Seltzer

Parenting d3sign/ Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . I love being a parent during the summer because nothing really counts. If my kids have messy hair or are still wearing their pajamas, it doesn't really matter. I cry when Labor Day shows up because it means school is starting again.