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stories, were Brideshead Revisited by
Evelyn Waugh and A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce,
both of which I read when I was 16.
To this day, that book by Joyce, along
with his novel Ulysses and The Magic
Mountain by Thomas Mann, are my
literary bibles.

JN: What would you most like peo-
ple to know about Zebra and Other

Stories?
CP: At the heart of each of these sto-
ries is a truth that I connected to very
profoundly. For example, there actual-
ly was an art teacher who came off the
streets and taught in my elementary
school. The boy in "Moon" is some-
one very dear to me. The same goes
for all the other individuals and their
stories and their problems. ... I have
been hearing something very interest-
ing happening with these stories.
Young people are reading them to
their parents, and parents are reading
them to their kids. There seems to be
the potentiality for very serious com-
munication. Zebra presents parents
with a way of seeing how their chil-
dren are struggling to create their own
"maps" of the world, or what it is
that's going on in the space between
their ears as their maps are being
formed.
JN: Why do your novels such as The
Chosen or The Promise have broad

appeal when they center on Jewish
culture?

CP: James Joyce was once asked why

he only wrote about Dublin. Even
though he wrote about other places,
we know Joyce as the writer of Dublin
in the same way we know Dos-
toyevsky as the writer of St. Petersburg
and Kafka as the writer of Prague. So
when he was asked why he only wrote
about Dublin, Joyce responded by say-
ing, "For myself I always write about
Dublin, because if I can get to the
heart of Dublin I can get to the heart
of all the cities in the world. In the
particular is contained the universal."

JN: What do you think is the main
challenge facing American Jewry
today?

CP: How to live as a distinct, cre-
ative Jewish culture and at the same
time be part of the core of American
civilization.

JN: What are you working on now?
CP: I am working with the violinist

Isaac Stern on his memoirs, a labor of
love that I expect will be completed
very soon. I then plan to write the third
and concluding novel about the notori-
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