“Bravo…a masterful storyteller that makes me feel under a spell…the stories emerge irresistibly as gems because the thoughts and writing are so exquisite…on the cusp of greatness.” Anthony Pitch, author of They Have Killed Papa Dead and other books.
“Piatigorsky delivers a riveting book [Notes Going Underground] about death that’s alive with brilliant prose and pathos. We’ll all get there in time, but Piatigorsky illuminates the ultimate journey with special meaning.” Neal P. Gillen, author of Rendezvous in Rockefeller and other books and short stories.
“This extraordinary work of imagination, a series of thought experiments, literally turns death upside down, into a prism of life. In these stories ripe with complexity and character, Piatigorsky explores the borderline of relationships facing the ultimate breaking point, mixing the profound with the simple and always finding the most human element. A pleasure [...]
Joram Piatigorsky once again delivers on a promise made in his past work, offering both depth and astounding insight into human nature. Where his previous work focused more on love and yearning, Notes Going Underground takes us into much darker alleyways, those that meander through the vast shadowy landscape between life and death. While this [...]
Fifty years ago – 50! – Lona and I were married on August 24, 1969, at 2 pm in Washington DC at the Hotel America. We met for the first time on a blind date (no, we both had good vision) on the day of Super Bowl 3, when the underdog New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts 16 – 7, on January 12, 1969…. I hadn’t even seriously considered proposing until the second date a week or so later. … Coward that I can be at times, it took a couple of months to gather the courage to pop the question….
Probably you, like the rest of us, have told a white lie – a fabricated fork in the truth, such as a false excuse given to wiggle painlessly out of an invitation or request from a friend you would rather not accept. You know it isn’t quite kosher, false, a lie, whatever its color.
Two movies, The Cakemaker and The Farewell, raise the question of whether it is ever ethical to lie, and turn white lies into a complex of colors.
