Steve Stern (born 1947) is an author from Memphis, Tennessee. Much of his work draws inspiration from Yiddish folklore.
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.
The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.
The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.
Arthur Rackham
Kim Yuna
Viswanathan Anand
Denise Van Outen
Dave Smalley
Emmy Rossum
Jasper Fforde
Ismail Merchant
Manuel Pellegrini
Ralph Bunche
Nalo Hopkinson
Caroline Kennedy