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Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

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Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

United States
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of a novel, The Sunlit Night, and a bilingual English-Norwegian collection of poems, Lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and The New Yorker online, among others....
A graduate of Yale and the NYU MFA program, Dinerstein Knight is the recipient of a Wallant Award for Jewish Literature. Her new novel, Hex, comes out in March 2020, and The Sunlit Night is forthcoming as a feature film. 
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Deciphered Desire
By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
I soon learned that Norwegians deliver praise in the past tense.