For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I wrote for Tablet about the best children’s Holocaust books of 2020. No Anne Frank bios; no picture books. FOR REASONS.
This was my last piece for Tablet. I quit, after over a decade. I’m sad and still having dreams about it, which I realize is a bit pathetic. But it had to be done, and that’s all I’ll say. Hire me for your ghostwriting, children’s literature coverage, and cultural journalism needs!
My SorryWatch co-writer Susan and I are hard at work on our book (tentatively called SORRY SORRY SORRY: THE CASE FOR GOOD APOLOGIES, forthcoming in 2022 from Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster). We were just on a British podcast about language, called The Allusionist, together. We talked about the word “sorry.” It was a lot of fun, in large part because the interviewer, Helen Zaltzman, was so witty and quick. I did shock her into silence when I described one of my non-apology-related writing foci as “all things Jewy.” We were on Zoom and her eyes got humungous. I keep forgetting that British Jews are not like New York City Jews and do not crack wise in this manner. I’m sorry, Helen.
Oh, also I went off on Twitter about Marjorie Taylor Greene* being a blot on the fine name of Marjorie. There are so few of us these days; the name peaked in the 1920s, and by the 1960s had disappeared from the Social Security’s list of 1000 top baby names entirely. This is why I buy all the monogrammed “Marjorie” hankies on eBay for a song. All the people who could bid against me are dead. But I digress. History is full of wonderful Marjories, and if you would like to learn about some of them, the thread starts here.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Bad for the name Marjorie, Bad for America. THIS WOMAN DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THE MARJORIES. A thread. #NotMyMarjorie
— Marjorie Ingall (@MarjorieIngall) February 1, 2021
(In truth I only have six Marjorie hankies. Here are three because I am too lazy to go get the rest from my sock drawer.)
