Yona Zeldis McDonough
Elyssa Friedland talks to Lilith’s Yona Zeldis McDonough about The Most Likely Club and the enduring power of female friendships.
Elyssa Friedland on Female Friendships Over Time
Tag: Author QA
Talking to Anne Burt, Author of “The Dig”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anne Burt talks to Lilith about her debut novel, The Dig, and her character’s struggle to reconcile her own ambitions while remaining loyal to her beloved, idealistic brother.
Michelle Brafman’s Characters Are Under Water
Yona Zeldis McDonough
How the novel “Swimming With Ghosts” makes waves.
Meryl Ain on “Shadows We Carry”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
Penny Jackson on “My Daughter’s Boyfriends”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Penny Jackson talks to Lilith about why she loves the short story form and her recent collection, “My Daughter’s Boyfriends.”
Alli Frank and Asha Youmans on Their Collaborative Novel
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The way two very different women find common ground is at the heart and soul of the novel Never Meant to Meet You and its two authors—one white, the other Black—talk to Yona Zeldis McDonough about how they came together to write it.
A Lighthearted Romp, Peppered with Yiddishisms
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Novelist Jane L. Rosen, author of the lighthearted romp, A Shoe Story chats with Lilith’s Yona Zeldis McDonough about what happens when we are offered a second chance.
A “Love Letter to the Smart Single Woman”
Sara Lippmann
Sara Lippman talks to Courtney Sender about her new book, “In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to me.”
A Poet Goes Toe-to-Toe with Death, Sex, Judaism and Family
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Jennifer Anne Moses about her book “Domesticity.”
Sarit Yishai-Levi Talks “The Woman Beyond the Sea”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Sarit Yishai-Levi about “The Woman Beyond the Sea” and how her deep roots in eretz y’israel have informed her writing and her life.