by Hester Kaplan | Dec 8, 2025 | Announcements & News, Home Page Featured Press
Over the past few years, a surprising new genre has emerged: the critic’s daughter’s memoir. In 2022, there was Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me. The alluded-to-father there was the art critic Peter Schjeldahl, who died four months after...
by Hester Kaplan | Dec 8, 2025 | Announcements & News, Home Page Featured Press
When Hester Kaplan was just about thirteen and her parents were away for the evening, she entered her father’s study, off limits to her even when he was there. Sitting at the desk where Justin Kaplan had composed his magnificent biography Mr. Clemens and Mark...
by Hester Kaplan | Oct 24, 2015 | Home Page Featured Press, Reviews
Hester Kaplan’s The Tell is captivating By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | January 23, 2013 Read more: http://providence.thephoenix.com/arts/150600-hester-kaplans-the-tell-is-captivating/#ixzz3pWqNnA77 In her first novel in 10 years, The Tell (Harper Perennial), Providence...
by Hester Kaplan | Oct 24, 2015 | Home Page Featured Press, Interviews, Reviews
Q&A with author Hester Kaplan Hester Kaplan is the author of the new short story collectionUnravished. She also has writtenanother story collection, The Edge of Marriage, and two novels, The Tell and Kinship Theory. She teaches at Lesley University, and she lives...
by Hester Kaplan | Sep 24, 2015 | Home Page Featured Press, Interviews
Hester Kaplan writes about marriage. Whether it’s stories about couples trying to figure out where they stand in a relationship with her award-winning The Edge of Marriage or most recently, with her new novel,The Tell, she writes about nuances that exist under the...
