Lore Segal

Tell Me a Mitzi

"Tell me a Mitzi," said Martha.
"Later I will," said her mother. "Now I've got a headache."
In a little while Martha asked her mother,"Mommy, now is it later?"
"No," said her mother. "It's still now."
In a little while Martha asked her mother if she had a headache.
"No," said her mother,"wshy ?"
"Tell me a Mitzi," said Martha

Once upon a time (said her mother)...

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Selected Works

Novel

Lucinella
A hilarious novel about the New York literary life.

Shakespeare's Kitchen
Thirteen interrelated stories, seven of which appeared in the New Yorker, about the longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them.

1. Novels

Her First American
Young Ilka from Vienna learns about America by loving a middle-aged black journalist on the skids.

Other People's Houses
The journey of a Jewish refugee child from Vienna via England and the Dominican Republic to New York.

2. Picture Books