Practical information about the business of acting is presented with comments and advice from actors, agents, directors, and others in the theater, motion pictures, and television

The Working Actor: A Guide to the Profession, Revised Edition

Katz, Judith

Matson, Katinka

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin??Books

Some organizations pay a great deal of attention to ensuring the physical safety of their team members, but do the team members feel safe enough to speak up and raise tough concerns or share bold and still-in-formation ideas? In this book, bestselling authors and inclusion experts Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz introduce the concept of "interaction safety" and demonstrate how it can help create a work environment of trust, inclusion, and collaboration. Interaction safety encourages reasonable risk-taking and inspires every individual to be brave enough to reach for higher goals and more ambitious possibilities. When interaction safety exists, people know they will not be penalized, ostracized, demoted, made small, discounted, or shunned because of their thoughts, contributions, and conversations. Individuals feel encouraged and empowered and can achieve more together than they would alone. Miller and Katz provide a four-level model for assessing and increasing the interaction safety in organizations, illustrated by short scenarios taken from real-life situations. They offer concrete actions team members, leaders, and organizations can take to build and maintain a productive, collaborative, and innovative environment in which people do their best work individually and collectively. When interaction safety is a way of life, the energy people used to spend walking on eggshells, trying to get their ideas heard, navigating minefields, or avoiding those they distrust can instead be put toward doing their best work and winning bigger for the organization. With a culture of openness and true collaboration, both the organization and individuals can soar!

Safe Enough to Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion & Collaboration in the Workplace

Business & Money

Miller, Frederick A.

Business Culture

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Jewish lesbian magic realism -- dynamic piece of writing.

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Firebrand Books

Nadine Pagan's dyke sister Jane wants to find her. Her lover Rose wants to marry her. And her mother Fay wants to forget her. All Nadine wants is to stop the buzzing in her head.Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound follows Nadine's (née Morningstar) adventures as she escapes from her incendiary Jewish family into the lesbian town of New Chelm—and far beyond. This is the novel Isaac Bashevis Singer might have written if he'd been a lesbian with a keen eye for contemporary middle-class assimilation. It's Jewish magical lesbian realism, a good story, and a dynamic piece of writing.Judith Katz is the author of two published novels, The Escape Artist and Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, which won the 1992 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. She teaches cultural studies and literature courses for the University of Minnesota's Center for Jewish Studies.

The Escape Artist: A Novel

When a Jewish diamond dealer visits 1910s Poland looking for a wife, the parents of Sofia Teitelbaum jump at the opportunity to marry her off. But on arrival in Buenos Aires, Sofia is put to work as a prostitute for the dealer's sister. How to escape from a bordello in a foreign country? By the author of Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound.

"Katz lives up to her first novel's potential in this moving, funny, wholly original picaresque about a nice Jewish girl. . . . The pasts and common destiny of two remarkable womenrelated with perfect timing in Sofia's convincing Yiddish-tinged Englishcome together beautifully in this nicely crafted, emotionally satisfying, and well-researched historical fiction."Publishers WeeklyThe Escape Artist, a brilliant work of historical fiction . . . fast-paced and gorgeously written novel” Liberty PressSet in the brothels and gangster dens of Jewish Buenos Aires at the beginning of the twentieth century, The Escape Artist catapults us into the lives of Sofia Teitelbaum and Hankus Lubarsky.Sofia, a nice Jewish girl from Poland, is lured away from home by Tutsik Goldenberg, a wealthy traveling businessman who claims to be a lonely Argentine diamond merchant in search of a wife. Upon arriving in Buenos Aires, Tutsik dumps Sofia at his sister’s brothel.Hankus, also a nice Jewish girl from Poland, is passing as a man. Having escaped the pogroms of Poland that killed her family, she lives her life as a handsome and mysterious magician and escape artist.When Tutsik spots the talented juggler and acrobat Hankus he envisions success as his manager, seeing Hankus as the means to get out from under his sister’s thumb.Sofia and Hankus fall in love and their attempts to walk the tightrope of love, freedom, and independence are quickly put to the test.Sex, deception, magic, and love are the main ingredients of this tour de force novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Judith Katz. In The Escape Artist, Katz reveals that all human interactions consist of love and hate, deception and candor, altruism and self-interest. This is as true in our lives today as it was in an immigrant community at the turn of the last century.Judith Katz is the author of two published novels, The Escape Artist and Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, which won a Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. She has received Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation, and National Endowment fellowships for fiction.

The Escape Artist

Literary

Bywater Books

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Nadine Pagan's dyke sister Jane wants to find her. Her lover Rose wants to marry her. And her mother Fay wants to forget her. All Nadine wants is to stop the buzzing in her head.Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound follows Nadine's (née Morningstar) adventures as she escapes from her incendiary Jewish family into the lesbian town of New Chelm—and far beyond. This is the novel Isaac Bashevis Singer might have written if he'd been a lesbian with a keen eye for contemporary middle-class assimilation. It's Jewish magical lesbian realism, a good story, and a dynamic piece of writing.Includes an all new introduction by the authorJudith Katz is the author of two published novels, The Escape Artist and Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, which won the 1992 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. She teaches cultural studies and literature courses for the University of Minnesota's Center for Jewish Studies.

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound

When I don’t feel safe… …I know you are not getting the best out of me. …I walk on eggshells and I’m careful about what I say. …I fear being judged or made small. …It is harder to join, to trust, to accept different and new ideas or people. When interaction safety exists, I have the freedom to share my ideas. Doors to trust, collaboration, understanding, and inclusion are open. And we all can soar―reaching new levels of performance individually and collectively. “There is nothing more central to a high performing organization than trust in the workplace. Fred and Judith have given us a fantastic hands-on, practical process to move any organization, no matter where it sits, toward that goal. Bravo!”―JERRY GREENFIELD, cofounder of Ben &amp; Jerry’s Ice Cream

Safe Enough to Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion, and Collaboration in the Workplace

Dreamscape Media

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The Working Actor: A Guide to the Profession, Revised Edition

Safe Enough to Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion & Collaboration in the Workplace

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel

The Escape Artist: A Novel

The Escape Artist: A Novel

The Escape Artist

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound

Safe Enough to Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion, and Collaboration in the Workplace