Daniel Melnick's Blog

FICTION about Armenians, Israel, music, & medicine. NOTES ON LITERATURE, ART, POLITICS, AND MUSIC

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Sunday, June 14, 2020

A New Novel - A Burnt Offering

I've published through Amazon (including Kindle) a much revised and enlarged version of my 2011 retelling in contemporary Israel of the...

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

The Ash Tree chapter 1

The first chapter of my novel "The Ash Tree" about Armenian-Americans in the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. ...

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Updated sequel to "Hungry Generations" - a new novel "The Fall of the Berlin Wall"

The Fall of the Berlin Wall is a sequel to my earlier novel, “Hungry Generations,” about characters in their late twenties in Los An...

Sunday, June 23, 2019

New book from Mark Arax - "The Dreamt Land - Chasing Water and Dust Across California

Knopf has published a brilliant book by Mark Arax, our nephew, titled "The Dreamt Land - Chasing Water and Dust Across California....

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Literature and Music - Modernism

Marcel Proust (1871-1922), In Search of Lost Time , from “Swann’s Way” (1913) excerpt. Gustav Mahler: ...

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About Me

Daniel Melnick: Jeanette Arax Melnick is an artist whose unique style plays with perspective and with vivid colors and patterns reflecting medieval Armenian manuscripts. (Current project: a calendar for the New Jersey Wind Symphony.) Her painting is on the cover of "The Ash Tree - a novel" by her husband, Daniel Melnick. The novel is about a family of Armenian-Americans, from 1915 to the early 1970s, is being published April 24, 2015, on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. Daniel's 2004 novel "Hungry Generations" (also with a cover painting by Jeanette) is about the encounter between a young composer in L.A. in the 70s and the family of a great virtuoso pianist, who knew Schoenberg and Stravinsky there in the 40s. Also, there's my critical book on modern fiction and music, "Fullness of Dissonance" (1994), as well as various stories and articles in print. Current projects: "The Fall of the Berlin Wall" (a novel and continuation of "Hungry Generations"), "Pathological States" (a novel about Los Angeles and a physician's family), "A Burnt Offering" (about Israel), and "Listening to Beethoven" (non-fiction). Contact us either by leaving a comment on a post or at danielcmelnick@gmail.com.

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