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'What If the Next Pizza Is My Last?': Jeffrey M. Feingold on Turning Family Stories into Fiction

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Hello friends, it's Stephen. And it's springtime. Almost springtime, at least, and it is not so terribly cold and windy here in the East Nook of Scotland. And today we have Jeffrey M. Feingold as our guest. Jeffrey M. Feingold started writing during the pandemic, which is something there were a lot of people baking sourdough bread and writing stories and learning how to play the cello during the pandemic. He continued to write and he has published since then three books of short stories. He has been nominated for a Pushkart Prize and for the Pan American Emerging Writers Prize. He is from the Boston area, but unfortunately, we don't have a really big Boston accent here. Because to me, when I hear a Boston accent or a New York accent, it just, I don't know. It just says home to me. Jeffrey has some really interesting insights into why he loves short stories and how he goes about using his family stories and that he heard growing up and turns them into fiction. And I think you'll really enjoy this. So give us a like and give us some stars and write a nice review. It really does help out, and it really does help us to continue to make these podcasts and to talk to writers and introduce writers that have been published by small presses rather than the four conglomerate presses that are left, and some that have been published by the traditional publishing houses as well. And now here's Jeffrey M. Feingold.