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Everything is Material: The Influence of Love, Loss and Humor in Fiction and Memoir with Susan Coll, Delia Ephron and Amy E. Schwartz—in celebration of the Moment-Karma Fiction Contest

August 9, 2024
By Moment
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Susan Coll, author of the novel Bookish People and Delia Ephron, screenwriter for movies like You’ve Got Mail and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and author of the memoir Left on Tenth: A Second Chance on Life, discuss the influence of love, loss and humor in the creative writing process. In conversation with Moment book & opinion editor Amy E. Schwartz. A special literary event celebrating the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest celebration.

Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Spring Issue 2022

Fiction | Why Is There a Buddhist at this Seder?

April 11, 2022
By Anne Schott
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On the evening of the first Passover seder, traffic on the Long Island Expressway heading east into the suburbs was massive, slow-moving and maddening, just as Martin Weissman expected.

2021 November/December, Arts & Culture, Fiction, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | Polonaise

July 31, 2023
By Rona Arato
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The music of Chopin brings together a mysterious young Hungarian Holocaust survivor and an American music student. But just when romance is in the air, he vanishes.

2021 September/October, Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | Private

July 31, 2023
By Linda Brettler
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Today, another of my usual jogs—the thousandth step of a thousandth run, every run varied enough to include something new.

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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest: Why We Still Write Holocaust Fiction

June 2, 2022
By Moment
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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest presents:

Authors Ruby Namdar (The Ruined House), Ruth Franklin (A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction) and Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein (Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life) discuss the enduring power–and perils–of Holocaust fiction.

Prior to the conversation, the 2020 Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest winners read excerpts from their stories:

1st place – Omer Friedlander, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

2nd place – Linda Brettler, Private

3rd place – Rona Arato, Polonaise

Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer Issue 2021

Fiction | The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

August 21, 2023
By Omer Friedlander
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Simcha was the man who sold air from the Holy Land, not to be confused with those unimaginative con artists who sold oil from the Oily Land or water from the Dead Sea.

2020 November/December, Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | Call Me Gefilte

July 31, 2023
By Phil M. Cohen
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His children relocated him from the small Greenwich Village apartment where he and his late wife, Susan, had raised their family, to the Scarsdale Sinai Home, for a short time on the assisted living unit and then to the Alzheimer’s floor.

2019 September/October, Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | The Eleventh Happiest Country

July 31, 2023
By Joan Leegant
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Roi’s old friend from the army, Tal, had been an actor before he got religious, and now he wanted to make another film and wanted Roi to do it. An action flick.

Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer 2019 Double Issue

Fiction | Goldfader In Full

July 31, 2023
By Jed Phillip Cohen
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Jed Phillip Cohen’s fiction short story is the winner of 2018 Moment Magazine Karma Foundation short fiction competition.

Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer 2019 Double Issue

From Book to Screen: A Conversation with André Aciman & Debra Granik

December 23, 2021
By Moment
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Is the movie as good as the book? Often, the answer to this perennial question is a flat “No.”

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Fiction | The Mark

July 31, 2023
By Judith Jacobson
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This story is the second-place winner of the 2017 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...