Alice Lowe – Big City Lit

Women on the Ice

Nov 12, 2024Alice LoweWinter 2024, Winter 2024 NonfictionAlice Lowe, Nonfiction

by Alice Lowe There was a stretch of time when I opened each week’s New Yorker magazine to the “Goings On About Town” pages to plan imaginary weekend getaways. I would choose a play, opera, or concert for each night of my stay. Mornings were earmarked for long walks around the city, followed by museum

Imagining Ethel

Mar 9, 2023Alice LoweSummer 2022, Summer 2022 NonfictionAlice Lowe, Essay

by Alice Lowe 1. Lena Gart was born on September 14, 1915. Esther Ethel Greenglass was born exactly two weeks later, on September 28. Both were daughters of early 20th-century Jewish immigrants, both of their mothers from Galicia, then a Polish/Russian border region now part of Ukraine. One raised in New York’s Lower East Side,