Jane Lazarre on How This Age of Crisis Affects Our Inner Worlds

Aug 13, 2021 | Interviews

Writer Jane Lazarre is no stranger to the pages of Lilith; an excerpt from her provocative and resonant novel, Inheritance, appeared in the Summer 2009 issue, and her memoirs The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter and The Mother Knot were both the subjects of...

Interview with Jane Lazarre

Sep 2, 2018 | Interviews

Deborah Kalb sits down with Lazarre to discuss her latest book Q: Why did you decide to write this memoir about your father, and how long did it take you to complete it? A: I decided to write this memoir about my father over 40 years after his death for many reasons –...

The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

Aug 24, 2017 | Interviews

In a letter to his baby grandson, Bill Lazarre wrote that “unfortunately, despite the attempts by your grandpa and many others to present you with a better world, we were not very successful.” Born in 1902 amid the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Lazarre dedicated his life...

A Conversation With Jane Lazarre

Jan 12, 2012 | Interviews

In the summer of 2009, Lilith excerpted a section of Jane Lazarre’s harrowing novel, Inheritance. The book was recently published and Lilith’s Fiction Editor, Yona Zeldis McDonough, interviewed Lazarre–author of ten books and creator of the undergraduate writing...

A Sort of Perfection – An interview with writer Jane Lazarre

Jan 18, 2008 | Interviews

Although Jane Lazarre’s remarkable memoir of her first years of motherhood was published nearly 30 years ago, the resonance — and relevance — of her story has barely faded. In The Mother Knot, Lazarre writes unsparingly of “the strange and...