Holocaust Girls

S.L. Wisenberg is the author of The Sweetheart Is In, a collection of short stories that was named a book of the year by the Chicago Tribune. She is co-director of the Masters in Creative Writing program at Northwestern University and also teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies. She is the creative nonfiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine.

"Anyone who gets meditative around the High Holy Days, wondering exactly what it means to be a contemporary American and a Jew, will find a caring companion in Chicago-based journalist S.L. Wisenberg...The strength of this collection is not so much in the answers Wisenberg provides, but in the questions she raises."-Forward -- Amy Waldman (The Jewish Daily) Forward "Wisenberg has a good eye for offbeat detail... She is an entertaining, self-aware narrator. A high point comes when Wisenberg considers the matter of Monica Lewinsky, reading whose biography, she writes, 'is like taking a five-hour call from your most annoying friend when you were fourteen years old, the one with constant boy problems.' ...Equal parts Fran Lebowitz and Leon Wieseltier: smart and satisfying."-Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews "With her lucid style and power of observation, Wisenberg's insightful essays are gems not to be missed."-Booklist -- George Cohen Booklist