I did not apply for this job,” she said with the kind of dark humor that she laces throughout the essays in the book, some of them previously published. “I became the go-to person for this emerging literary genre - synagogue shooting op-eds. “I started noticing in the past several years that every time my editors from mainstream publications would ask me to write something, it was about dead Jews or antisemitism,” Horn said. Norton & Company)Īfter writing five well-received novels grounded in different eras in Jewish history, Horn, 44, turned her attention to “People Love Dead Jews” (and her parallel podcast, “ Adventures With Dead Jews,”) after being asked to write opinion pieces and articles responding to events such as the fatal shooting attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018. ‘People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present’ by Dara Horn (W.
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