Mindy Lewis
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At Home on the Church Steps
From Upper West Side about Apartment Life, homelessness, Men, Money, neighbors, Protest, Sweet and Sour, The Politics of...Published on: 02/08/2013
I am the author of LIFE INSIDE: A Memoir (Washington Square Press, 2003), co-author of A CURIOUS LIFE: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientist (Post Hill Press, 2019), editor of DIRT: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House (Seal Press, 2009), and recipient of New Letters 2015 Essay Award. My essays and articles have appeared in Newsweek, New York Times Book Review, Lilith, Body & Soul, Poets & Writers, Arts & Letters Journal, New Letters, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Santa Ana River Review and Many Mountains Moving. I have taught at The Writer’s Voice of the West Side Y, Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Brooklyn College and as a visiting writer at George Mason University. These days, I enjoy walking the Upper West Side with Teddy, my canine companion.
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It was around 1975 and I was maybe 8 years old. My $2 a week allowance worked well for my humble needs, and I didn’t necessarily want or need a job at that age, but my dad would ask me to run errands every now and then and let me keep some of the left-over […]
I first met Ari Horwitz in front of a pizzeria near the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in 1978. I wasn’t in the habit of talking to people I didn’t know, but Ari was about my age, mid-20s, and we seemed to have an immediate psychic connection. Ari, it turned out, lived with a roommate […]
I am in my apartment in Woodside, Queens, reading C.S. Lewis. It is my first apartment that isn’t school housing, and I feel like a woman born again: reading, writing, thinking, manic with ideas and desires in a space all of my own. Though I am not Catholic- I’m technically Jewish but not in any […]
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