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“Much more than a muse: biography shows us the Maud Gonne we didn’t learn about at school” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT reviewed by Irish Independent
Monday, September 20th, 2021“The great virtue of Kim Bendheim’s book is that she brings fresh perspectives – non-academic, contemporary and American – to bear on the known facts of Gonne’s life… Revelatory.” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT reviewed in the Irish Times
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021Read the full review here.
“[A] richly detailed critical biography of one of Ireland’s most celebrated and enigmatic political and cultural figures” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT reviewed in the Arts Fuse
Friday, May 28th, 2021Read the review here.
THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim interviewed on This Irish American Life
Thursday, April 29th, 2021Listen here.
“What happens when you discover your heroine was a vile anti-Semite?” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim writes for Air Mail
Thursday, April 29th, 2021Read the article here.
“Thanks to her role as muse to W.B.Yeats, Maud Gonne (1866-1953) is well-known in mythic form to many who have never heard her name. The initial corrective was her own 1938 autobiography, but Kim Bendheim’s book is a much more candid and useful book.” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT recommended in Tortoise
Friday, April 16th, 2021Read the article here.
“The Power of an Extraordinary Woman” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim in conversation with Women’s Power Toolkit
Friday, April 9th, 2021“Yeats / Gonne: Echoes over Time” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim in conversation with Joseph Hassett for Irish Rep
Thursday, April 1st, 2021UPCOMING EVENT: THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim in conversation with Joy Levitt for the JCC on 04/27/21
Friday, March 19th, 2021Details here.
“Kim Bendheim on the life of Maud Gonne” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author in conversation with Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt
Friday, October 30th, 2020Listen here.
NEW EVENT: THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim in conversation with Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt on Thursday 10/1
Monday, September 28th, 2020Register here.
