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May 27, 2016 (May 27, 2016)

Jane Bernstein on Rachel in the workplace

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Jane Bernstein, author of the UIP books Loving Rachel and Rachel in the World, has a new essay on Vice about her daughter Rachel’s job. As in both her acclaimed memoirs, Bernstein pulls […]

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September 10, 2008

Jane Bernstein on Sarah Palin

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Jane Bernstein, author of Rachel in the World: A Memoir, posted Sarah Palin: No Friend to Children and Adults with Disabilities on the Beacon Broadside blog. “Sarah Palin loves Trig. She is […]

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August 20, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

“Rachel in the World” endorsed by B&N Notable Reader

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Sandra Tsing Loh includes Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World in her Notable Reader roundup for Barnes & Noble Review. “One of the most extraordinary, awful, funny, candid, heart-rending, brave books about […]

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December 13, 2007

Jane Bernstein interviewed on NPR’s The Story with Dick Gordon

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NPR’s The Story with Dick Gordon will air an interview today with University of Illinois Press author Jane Bernstein about her book Rachel in the World: A Memoir.  The program originates […]

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December 10, 2007

The Houston Chronicle lauds “Rachel in the World”

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  Michael Berryhill praises Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World: A Memoir in the Houston Chronicle: “I am not entirely sure how someone who is not raising a mentally retarded child will […]

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December 4, 2007 (December 10, 2007)

“Another episode in the life of a not-bestselling writer…” by Jane Bernstein

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Woke up at 6 AM to drive across Pennsylvania, a state that has come to seem endlessly long. I arrived an hour early and found the bookstore from my itinerary in a […]

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November 27, 2007 (December 10, 2007)

“A Few Notes from North Carolina” by Jane Bernstein

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I try to be realistic about bookstore appearances in places where I don’t have friends and family to fill up the chairs and hope that someone shows up;­ maybe even […]

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November 12, 2007 (December 10, 2007)

The Washington Post reviews Jane Bernstein’s “Rachel in the World”

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The November 11, 2007, issue of the Washington Post contains a review of Jane Bernstein’s Rachel in the World: A Memoir. “The book makes it clear that we, as a […]

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October 8, 2007 (December 10, 2007)

Jane Bernstein in The New York Times Magazine

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The October 7, 2007, issue of The New York Times Magazine featured a “Lives” essay by Jane Bernstein that was adapted from her new book Rachel in the World. V […]

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October 2, 2007 (December 10, 2007)

Jane Bernstein Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review

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Jane Bernstein’s new book Rachel in the World: A Memoir received a favorable review in the September 30th issue of her hometown daily, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Jane will be discussing […]

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