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Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love was featured in the New York Times article “How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity” by Joseph Berger on Feb. 6, 2022

“In Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love, a sendup of the socialists, anarchists and intellectuals who populated New York’s Lower East Side in the early 20th century, Miriam Karpilove writes from the perspective of a sardonic young woman frustrated by the men’s advocacy of unrestrained sexuality and their lack of concern about the consequences for her. . . . “

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