Nature, Time, Memory and the Childhood Experience of a “Cherishing Force”
Dale Kushner, author of The Conditions of Love, recalls her childhood experience of a "cherishing force" in nature.
Treating Patients or Creating Characters? Making the Choice
Dale Kushner, author of The Conditions of Love, recalls the time when she decided she must choose between becoming a Jungian analyst and a writer of fiction.
What Do We Really Want To Know About a Writer?
Dale Kushner, author of The Conditions of Love, follows up her popular "Five Best Questions to Ask a Writer" with four questions she'd like to ask herself.
Xu Bing, Radical Denial, and My “Elegy to History”
Dale Kushner, author of The Conditions of Love, shares "Elegy to History," the poem she created in response to Xu Bing's Background Story
"My Jewish Question, My Father" on Jewish Currents
Dale Kushner, author of The Conditions of Love, explores her own Jewish identity in "My Jewish Question, My Father," a recent blog post on Jewish Currents
Anne Frank and My Birth as a Writer
For a nine-year-old in New Jersey, the confessions of a 13-year-old German girl to her diary were life-changing.
Girls at Risk: The Enigma of Resilience and What I Learn from My Characters
Dale Kushner explores how the main characters in her two novels are put at risk by their parents but discover resilience within themselves.
Chaos in the Beginning
Sitting down to write today, I have a thought: art begins in chaos.
The Five Best Questions To Ask a Writer
Since May and the publication of the paperback edition of The Conditions of Love, I’ve been on the road visiting bookstores and talking to readers.