Minna Proctor: 3 books

At age thirty, Minna Proctor, a child of the seventies and product of divorced parents—Jewish mother, Catholic father, had no religious orientation. In fact, her last “spiritual” foray was her perfunctory bat mitzvah. So when her father wants to become an Episcopal priest, Minna Proctor is flummoxed....

**“****I know of no one writing more bravely and acutely about the intricate bonds of family, and the ways that we wound and heal the ones closest to us.” —Emily Gould, author of **Friendship   Minna Zallman Proctor’s *Landslide *is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays....

American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new...