by Lou Gottlieb | Sep 6, 2023 | Memory
I wish to confess to you, before I am dead myself. Even to wish to be chosen as a kapo, as the head of a work crew, is an act of supreme egotism: to choose your own survival over another’s survival is understandable; to do so repeatedly is an act of monstrous egotism....
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Story
Most of these stories are part of a now-136-story collection. The inspiration was from an exercise suggested by my teacher, Mrs. Staveley in the 1980s: “Ask yourself where you were at the Crucifixion.” She thought most of us had been in the crowd,...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Story
Returned from Tenant’s Harbor and waiting idly one evening on the platform of the Sixty-sixth Street El station in New York, not in any hurry to get his train home, Toomer suddenly had a feeling of inner movement, as if some other power had taken over within him....
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Essay
For years I had wondered how young people in general, especially those born after 1985, would take over adult functions when they grew into adults. In my mind, I couldn’t get the children to fit the adult responsibilities. My father told a story of a man working in a...
by Lou Gottlieb | Oct 20, 2022 | Story
Laurens Van der Post was a prisoner of the Japanese in WWII. One day he had a remarkable experience: All the Dutch and English senior officers were suddenly summoned to parade one afternoon in the prison quadrangle. The summons, though extremely quick and...
