Esteemed Novelist and Short Story Writer Jim Shepard

By Joseph Cooper,

Published September 14, 2015 at 1:30 PM EDT

09/14/15 - On the next Topical Currents we turn to Literary Contributor Ariel Gonzalez, for an interview with esteemed novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard.

His latest work is “THE BOOK OF ARON,” set in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. It’s a tale of a Jewish boy sent to an orphanage run by a virtuous Polish doctor. Ariel Gonzalez is an English Professor at Miami-Dade College.

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