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In Conversation: On Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories

In Conversation: On Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories

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Wolitzer, Hilma, Robinson , Roxana
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories is a collection written by Hilma Wolitzer. Most of these stories were originally published in the 1960s and ’70s in such magazines as Esquire and The Saturday Evening Post, with a new work bringing Wolitzer’s early characters – the author is now in her 90s – into the present. Moderated by author Roxana Robinson.

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Roxana Robinson is the author of more than 10 books, including Dawson’s Fall, Sparta, and Cost; short story collections; and the biography Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue, among other publications.

Wolitzer, Hilma

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Hilma Wolitzer is the author of nine novels; four young adult novels, and the nonfiction The Company of Writers: Fiction Workshops and Thoughts on the Writing Life. Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories (Bloomsbury Publishing) is a collection of short stories, most of them originally published in magazines, including Esquire and The Saturday Evening Post, in the 1960s and ‘70s. But the last story, written just before the book went into production, brings them all dramatically into the present. Wolitzer and her husband of 68 years were both hospitalized with COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic. She recovered; Morton Wolitzer did not. It was one of Wolitzer’s daughters, Meg, also a writer, who had the idea of the collection. In several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often hilarious vignettes. The stories are of their time and yet timeless, zeroing in on the domestic sphere with wit, candor, and grace. Publishers Weekly celebrated it as a “sage collection of stories … Throughout, Wolitzer captures the feel of each moment with characters who charm with their honesty. The result is a set of engaging time capsules.”

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