Photo & Video - Judy Batalion

An Interior Saunalogue – Reading, Montreal, April 2011

Video & Audio Links

I appeared on Anderson Cooper’s show ‘Anderson’ to discuss my writing about hoarding

A scene of my play ‘The Fighting Feminists’ (plus a talk about the piece), Goldsmiths, London

Linda Grant, Jason Solomons and I discuss Yiddish, Guardian podcast

April 29, 2013
I chatted about Margaret Thatcher and milk on The Salon TV show.

February 22, 2013
Hear my story 'Chicken' about my lapsed - and relapsed - vegetarianism in this Tablet podcast .

February 15, 2013
Hear me speak about the dynamics of comedy audiences and why I wear brightly colored shirts on the What's My Name show.

February 12, 2013
My evening of good, clean pun... Punderdrome 3000 .

February 8, 2013
Feminine & Funny - my review of 'We Killed: the Rise of Women in American Comedy.'

January 16, 2013
Come hear me tell my story about my bubby-in-law's Yorkshire kugel at Beyond Bubbie, 92nd Y Tribeca.

January 10, 2013
He's W-HAY too into you... Brief thoughts on the leading (and led-on) men of Girls .

January 8, 2013
I'll be reading some super brand new pages at The Folding Chair reading series. It's totally free, and you can pick up some lettuces at the bar's CSA.

January 4, 2013
My musings about the messiness of motherhood in the New York Times.

November 29, 2012
Get ready for some serious learning, people. From March, I'll be teaching personal essay writing at Mediabistro. Sign up soon!

November 15, 2012
I'm excited to have contributed an essay (about memoir in visual art, and cats) to Judy Chicago, the book that accompanies the London Ben Uri Gallery exhibition.

November 1, 2012
The Other Rosh Hashana: my annual pilgrimage to my favorite congregation - the Brooklyn Book Festival.

October 15, 2012
'Foreign Affairs,' a personal essay about my fear of landing, appeared in the new shmancy print magazine The Alpine Review.

September 3, 2012
Hang Men: My behind-the-scenes look at the art world's silent schleppers.

August 15, 2012
Read about how 14,000 yogis (including moi) took over Times Square in Shush for Shavasanah.

July 27, 2012
Rebbetzin to Rebel: my review of artist Helene Aylon's memoir.

May 30, 2012
Londoners - please join the audience as I dissect the audience at The Ends of Audience.

May 11, 2012
Here's my new essay in Babble about how there's no formula for motherhood, and a pinch of painkiller beats a dose of dogma.

May 9, 2012
The HuffPo just reposted my Lilith piece about why I had a Big Fat British Sephardi Orthodox wedding when I’m not British, Sephardi, Orthodox or Big.

May 1, 2012
Judgment Day: on how I was too maternally inept to even be a cat lady.

April 16, 2012
I'll be reading my essays (out loud) at Bar 82, 136 2nd Ave, NY, 8pm. Please join me - it's totally gratis.

April 8, 2012
Speed Shrinking: here's my salute to this neurotic novelty.

March 1, 2012
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