The Story Ends — The Story Never Ends
Fiction and Adapted Folktales by Joyce Goldenstern
I found two novels I read by Ted Morrissey intellectually engaging and shared my thoughts in a review. Here is a link: https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/2025/joyce-goldenstern/thrice-told-echos-hawthornes-twice-told-tales-ted-morrisseys
Esther Spodek (We Have Everything Before Us), Nancy Burke (Undergrowth), and I (In Their Ruin) will be reading our work at the Evanston Library on Wednesday, April 23rd, at 6:30. 1703 Orrington Avenue. Refreshments. And then on Tuesday May 6th, I am helping to organize an Open Mic at Albany Park Library on the theme…
I was able to make a public statement at the Council committee meeting today. Scroll down to see my statement. Read the image below to get some background. There was a great turnout in support of the puppets, and many Jewish comrades who do not support Israel-U.S. policy against Palestine spoke — many more than…
My poetic essay “Wall in the Land of Giants” as a response to the attack against Palestine is published in Rabble Review. I first read it at Madison Street Books in January 2025. It is published under the pen name Rejoice SV. Here is a link to “The Wall in the Land of Giants” in…
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I enjoy writing short stories, adapting folktales, and on rare, inspired occasions writing poems. Much of my fiction is concerned with the way stories can govern and shape lives. This concern makes itself felt in my novel In Their Ruin (Black Heron Press 2024) and my first full-length collection of short fiction The Story Ends — The Story Never Ends (ELJ Publications 2015). Contact me at jkaygolden@gmail.com
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The Story Ends -- The Story Never Ends