The Library Company presents Imperfect History by Anndee Hochman

For the 50th anniversary of its graphic arts collection, the Library Company looks beyond the images themselves to highlight what is missing"and why. Anndee Hochman reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:11pm on October 19, 2021[SHARE]

Repairing the world takes all kinds of builders, including the ones with words by Anndee Hochman

A volunteer stint repairing a Germantown row house reprises Anndee Hochman's teenage impulse to wield a hammer in lieu of words, and reminds her that all tools can both create and destroy.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:58pm on August 23, 2021[SHARE]

The mixologist's daughter: raising a glass to reinvention, again by Anndee Hochman

Over the course of almost 30 years, some things change and some don't"and Anndee Hochman, from writing to bartending and back again, learns that personal reinventions don't have to shake the…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:08pm on June 8, 2021[SHARE]

'The Diamond Cutter's Daughter: A Poet's Memoir' by Elaine Terranova by Anndee Hochman

Poet Elaina Terranova has more in common with her father than she knew. 'The Diamond Cutter's Daughter' explores power, fear, and longing in a Philadelphia Orthodox Jewish family. Anndee Hoc…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 5:06pm on May 24, 2021[SHARE]

When we can't meet in person, do we need a shorthand for our identity? by Anndee Hochman

It's hard enough to navigate our identities IRL. What happens when we're reduced to a Zoom box or other distanced communication? Anndee Hochman considers.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:53pm on April 9, 2021[SHARE]

After a year of pandemic life, how do we measure the distance between then and now? by Anndee Hochman

How have we weathered the last year? Let us count the ways. Births. Zooms. Funerals. The hugs we missed. Anndee Hochman is still realizing that anything can happen.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 3:58pm on March 11, 2021[SHARE]

'A Cartography of Home' by Hayden Saunier by Anndee Hochman

A new poetry collection from Hayden Saunier weaves Pennsylvania's natural world with its mini-marts and hotels, exploring possibility, loss, compound perspectives, and calls to customer serv…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:37pm on February 15, 2021[SHARE]

What happens when the stress of the pandemic leads to a surprising yes? by Anndee Hochman

Plan and lead a family bat mitzvah in four days? Anndee Hochman is a writer, not a rabbi, but something about the COVID-19 pandemic made her say yes to her cousin's request.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 1:28pm on November 10, 2020[SHARE]

Here's how my Jewish great-grandparents' Philly bakery lives in me today by Anndee Hochman

While braiding and baking the Friday challah, Anndee Hochman imagines her great-grandmother's journey from Russia. What did she carry with her? Are those things alive today?

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:28pm on September 1, 2020[SHARE]

Deep in the pandemic, can a neighborhood's character survive? by Anndee Hochman

Before a virus turned the world upside down, Anndee Hochman was a familiar figure to her neighbors, walking Germantown Avenue. What has changed? What is perennial, even in a pandemic?

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:41pm on July 27, 2020[SHARE]

Even in a pandemic, there are some questions only storytellers can answer by Anndee Hochman

Stephen King wrote 'The Stand' and Camus wrote 'The Plague.' They're not the first or the last to mine rampant sickness for human meaning. Anndee Hochman wonders how our storytellers will ma…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 3:53pm on May 25, 2020[SHARE]

When disaster is about to strike, is it a gift not to know? by Anndee Hochman

What were you doing in mid-March, when the realization that this pandemic was going to derail the world hit you? Was it like other moments before disaster struck? Anndee Hochman considers.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:20pm on May 5, 2020[SHARE]

Here's what happened in my 2nd-grade classroom as COVID-19 became a pandemic by Anndee Hochman

"We're not closing," a local K-5 principal told teaching writer-in-residence Anndee Hochman. But things changed more quickly than anyone could believe.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 5:25pm on March 17, 2020[SHARE]

A Barnard College parent in Philly grapples with the death of Tessa Majors by Anndee Hochman

News of a fatal stabbing in Morningside Park rocked Anndee Hochman's family"her own daughter is a classmate of the victim. How do parents and their children cope with the nightmare of violen…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 2:37pm on December 27, 2019[SHARE]

Theater of Witness presents 'Walk in My Shoes' by Anndee Hochman

Theater of Witness filmed a performance of their testimonial performance work 'Walk in My Shoes,' and the exploration of racism and violence proved a revelation. Anndee Hochman reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:55am on November 13, 2018[SHARE]

Finding solidarity onstage and on the page by Anndee Hochman

When Anndee Hochman found herself looking for inspiration, she turned to poetry and plays to get her going. It worked.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 4:38pm on February 4, 2017[SHARE]

Teens, Trump, and Shakespeare in Clark Park's 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' by Anndee Hochman

It's summer Shakespeare season, and Anndee Hochman asks why we keep turning to the bard. She also thinks she knows the answer.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 3:25pm on August 2, 2016[SHARE]