~ Blues Diva ~ Crazy for Tin Pan Alley songs and Broadway musicals, Bayla’s favorite were the blues, though she could never say where she first heard them. Maybe the words penetrated thin walls in tiny apartments of her tenement building. Or maybe during August’s stifling heat, the wail and whine oozed out of an open window from a record player or a radio, awakening her to a longing, a promise, a grasp of something she couldn't name. Blues got inside her, and stayed. By the time she was ten …
Novel
The Artfulness of Women – a forthcoming novel by Naomi Weiss
~ Synopsis ~ From a harrowing journey out of Eastern Europe in the early 1900’s to the tenements of Depression-era New York City. From a Victorian mansion in a Pennsylvania steel town to Tin Pan Alley. From singing the blues in a speakeasy to a lead role on Broadway. The Artfulness of Women explores the talent, sexuality, and long-held family secrets passed down to three generations of women determined to follow their true passions as their lives are touched by World War II, civil …