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Oct 1, 2024 | 
autostraddle.com | Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya |Temim Fruchter
Earlier this year, we told you about the super exciting new short story anthology coming from Dzanc Books called Be Gay, Do Crime, which is edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
damemagazine.com | Temim Fruchter
By our 40s, many folks have already solidified their social circles. But it's not so uncommon for middle-age LGBTQ people to flout such conventions—out of necessity and desire. This article was made possible because of the generous support of DAME members. We urgently need your help to keep publishing. Will you contribute just $5 a month to support our journalism? A few months ago, I had an accidental phone call with a friend.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Temim Fruchter
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Temim Fruchter’s novelCity of Laughter is my favorite book published this year.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
autostraddle.com | Temim Fruchter
I didn’t know existential therapists were a thing until I recently got one. Who knew they had therapists who studied De Beauvoir and Camus, who worked with people like me; people haunted by the concept of eternity since age seven, by the perennial cosmic disaster of Sunday afternoon, and by the capital V void, the edge of which I have spent most of my life peering masochistically over? I walk the therapist through my personal existential classics. Am I derivative? Am I of use?
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Temim Fruchter
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Temim Fruchter
It was the fall of 2012 when I started to forget how to play the drums. This is neither figuration nor exaggeration; I actually, bodily, began to forget. Like a character in a folktale, I was fast losing wisdom to foolishness. My band was on tour in Europe when the forgetting, which felt at once gradual and sudden, began. We’d take to the stage and greet the crowd like always.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
thefreelibrary.com | Temim Fruchter
* City of LaughterBy Temim FruchterFAMILY SAGAThe protagonist of Temim Fruchter's remarkable debut novel, a queer grad student studying Jewish folklore, describes her work as collecting scraps. In the wake of her father's death, 30-year-old Shiva decides to get her master's, hoping to unravel the family mysteries her mother has kept hidden from her all her life.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
entertainment-mag.com | Temim Fruchter
Fruchter deftly braids together the narratives of four generations of women in Shiva’s family, all bound by the mystery of Judaism and queer passion. The novel skillfully moves back and forth between her contemporary characters and their ancestors from Ropshitz, Poland. Among these forebears were messengers, badchanim, healers and spirits, and they anchor the book in a place where “laughter is fundamental” yet regimented.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
la-razon.com | Temim Fruchter |Antonio Dalence |Mauricio Saravia
La primera vez que violé intencionalmente una ley judía, estaba en la universidad. Este experimento transgresor fue inspirado por un amigo que había crecido ortodoxo, como yo, pero que ya no lo era y simplemente había comenzado a probar pequeñas herejías. A medida que pasó el tiempo, experimenté más liberalmente. Pero Dios no se inmutó. Probablemente Dios tenía cosas más importantes que hacer que enojarse. Y aunque técnicamente es exacto, “ex-ortodoxo” tiene un tono escandaloso.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Temim Fruchter |Keren Blankfeld |Katya Apekina |Maya Arad
Looking to take a break from social media this winter? I’m right there with you! But before you log off for the season, be sure to browse one or more of these fifteen exciting new titles. To give you a peek: they include poems informed by the book of Genesis, recipes for the Jewish holidays, and scenes out of Burning Man.
