The 91-year-old author, who escaped the Nazis and satirized New York literary society, collects a lifetime of writing in The Journal I Did Not Keep
, is a retrospective selection of short stories, essays, and novel excerpts written over the course of the 91-year-old author’s long career. While few authors rejoice in the idea of rereading old work, for Segal the process of compiling an overview provided a rare and welcome opportunity to tinker with what was previously complete.
It’s no surprise that another of Segal’s favorite stories is that of Adam and Eve. “It’s not about what we think it’s about,” she says. “The man says, ‘She did it,’ and she said, ‘No, this serpent did it.’ The first thing that happens in a biblical story is the fact that we’re blaming each other.” She loves Shakespeare, too, and Jane Austen—writers exceptionally adept at worming their way into the human condition.
The real-life Lore Segal wrote to the Jewish Refugee service explaining why her parents should be brought to the United Kingdom .
The pair had two children, Beatrice and Jacob; in the wake of David’s death, it was Segal’s mother, who lived in their building just a few floors down, who made it possible for her to continue writing. “I would go down to her apartment and that was my office and my study,” Segal says. Her mother would come up to watch the children. “She was also a reader.
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