Lilly Dancyger & others
Four Jewish Writers on the Power of Women’s Anger in ‘Burn It Down’
At the start of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, the editor, Jewish writer Lilly Dancyger, writes that she wanted this book to “be a place where our anger could live, a place for us to take up space after generations of being told to shrink, to rage after a lifetime of being told behave.” The result? A powerful collection telling tales of anger.
Dancyger explained to Alma that putting this together was a lot of work, but 100% worth it. “It was also so healing and soothing for me to immerse myself in so much powerful, beautiful anger during the last couple of years when there’s been so much to be angry about every day, and hopelessness is so tempting,” Dancyger says.
Over e-mail, we asked Dancyger and three of the Jewish contributors to the anthology — Marissa Korbel, Erin Khar, and Sheryl Ring — to talk about anger, catharsis, and — ’tis the season — Yom Kippur.
