Tova Mirvis Explained

Tova Mirvis (born 1972) is an American novelist. She is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and holds an masters of fine arts degree in fiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. Mirvis' family has lived in Memphis, Tennessee, since 1874 when her German-born grandmother moved there at age two.

Wendy Shalit essay

Mirvis was the subject of a 2005 essay by Wendy Shalit entitled "The Observant Reader"^[8] in The New York Times Book Review which accused Mirvis, an Orthodox Jew, of writing ostensibly "'insider' fiction (that) actually reveals the authors' estrangement from the traditional Orthodox community." Mirvis defended herself in an essay in The Forward.^[9]

Writings

Mirvis's published works include:^[10]

Books

Novels

• Book: The Ladies Auxiliary . W. W. Norton & Company. 1999. 9780393078343 .
• Book: The Outside World . 2004. Knopf/Vintage. 9780307429124 .
• Book: Visible City . registration . 2014. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 978-0-544-04774-7 .

Memoir

• Book: The Book of Separation. 2017. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 9780544520547.

Shorter works

Essays and other pieces

• News: September 8, 2017 . Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza . New York Times .
• Web site: Made by Hand. Real Simple. September 2017.
• When the Ground Cracked . . September 5, 2017 .
• Web site: After a Divorce, Spending Rosh Hashanah in the Great Outdoors . . September 19, 2017.
• Web site: A Lost Voice, Writer's Block, and a New Life . Literary Hub. September 19, 2017.
• Web site: Out of the Mikvah, Into the World . . September 19, 2017 . 2017-11-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171116034448/http://www.lennyletter.com/life/a992/out-of-the-mikvah-into-the-world/ . 2017-11-16 . dead .
• Web site: Risky Reads: Review of 'The President's Daughter,' By Ellen Emerson White . National Public Radio. April 6, 2014.
• News: 9 Terribly Dysfunctional Marriages in Literature. Huffington Post. March 20, 2014.
• "Untamed novel, Untamed life," Beyond The Margins
• Web site: Visible City . . March 18, 2014.
• Web site: The Books That Light Our Way. Book Riot. March 19, 2014.
• Web site: To Outline or Not to Outline? . . March 17, 2014 .
• Web site: 7 Things I've Learned So Far. . March 16, 2014.
• Web site: Zeringue . Marshal . Writers Read: Tova Mirvis . Campaign for the American Reader's. March 16, 2014.
• Web site: Stained Glass: Tova Mirvis on what it means to be a Jewish writer . Jewish Book Council. March 14, 2014.
• Web site: The City Below: Tova Mirvis explores parts of NY that are buried out of sight and how that relates to writing fiction . Jewish Book Council. March 12, 2014.
• Web site: After Page One: The Journey . . March 10, 2014.
• Web site: Divorced From My Husband, and My Faith . The New York Times. February 19, 2014.
• Web site: September 29, 2013 . From Somewhere . The Boston Globe.
• Web site: In Praise of the C-Section – I'm not sorry I didn't have a natural birth. Babble.com. 2008.
• Sophisticated Palate. Tablet Magazine. November 26, 2011.
• Hard to Match. Tablet Magazine. August 5, 2009.

Stories

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=z3oTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208. Potato Stories. 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11. New York University Press. 2002. 9780814799055. Ulrich Baer.
• Susan Stamberg & Murray Horwitz read Tova Mirvis's. November 26, 2013 . Potatoes . digital file of broadcast reading . NPR's. ^[11]

Sources

• Web site: Interviews and Profiles: Wandering a Long Way from Home . JBooks.com . 2017-11-15.
• http://media.www.touroindependent.com/media/storage/paper790/news/2006/01/01/Features/Tova-Mirvis.On.Balance.Motherhood.And.Moving.Beyond.Stereotypes-1308385.shtml
• Web site: 720 AM | Chicago's Very Own – Talk, News Radio – Sports, Traffic, Weather, Blackhawks, Northwestern, Listen Live – wgnradio.com . WGN Radio . 2017-11-15.
• http://www.exclusivebooks.com/interviews/ftf/tova_mirvis.php?PHPSESSID=of70o22c2grqpg9gf7tm74s5n0

Notes and References

1. Web site: Columbia College Today . College.columbia.edu . 2008-06-18 . 2017-11-16.
2. Web site: Columbia College Today . College.columbia.edu . 2008-06-18 . 2017-11-30.
3. When the Ground Cracked . Psychology Today . 2017-11-16.
4. News: Friedman . Gabe . In 'Visible City,' Tova Mirvis adds pain to her palette . The Times of Israel . 2014-05-11 . 2017-11-16.
5. Web site: After a Divorce, Spending Rosh Hashanah in the Great Outdoors. Tabletmag.com . 2017-09-19 . 2017-11-16.
6. Web site: Levine . Mari . Tova Mirvis on the Pain and Necessity of Leave-Taking . JewishBoston . 2017-09-18 . 2017-11-17.
7. Book: The Book of Separation. Tova Mirvis. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2017. 9780544520547.
8. Web site: Wendy. Shalit . The Observant Reader . The New York Times . 2005-01-30 . 2017-11-15.
9. Judging a Book By Its Head Covering, By Tova Mirvis, Forward.com, Fri. Feb 04, 2005
10. Web site: News . Tova Mirvis . 2017-11-15.
11. Web site: Hanukkah Lights 2013 . NPR . 2013-12-14 . 2017-11-16.