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  Elena Lappin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elena Lappin is a British author and journalist, born in Moscow in 1954, who grew up in Prague and Hamburg, and has lived in Israel, Canada and the United States.
In 2004, Elena Lappin became known as one of the journalists deported from the United States due to a lesser known requirement for journalists to apply for a peculiar kind of visa.
Elena Lappin's experience of her brief imprisonment and deportation from the US has been printed in prestigious news papers, such as Los Angeles Times and The Guardian.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elena_Lappin   (198 words)

  
 firstamendmentcenter.org: news
Lappin, 49, a naturalized British citizen originally from Russia, said she came to Los Angeles as a freelance writer for The Guardian, a British daily newspaper.
Lappin said she didn't know journalists needed a special visa to work in the United States and had previously traveled in the country without one.
Lappin said she was taken to a processing center in downtown Los Angeles and placed in a small cell until being deported to London the next day.
www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=13340&printer-friendly=y   (432 words)

  
 The Neil Rogers Show - News - Return of the McCarthy Era
Lappin, a British citizen, arrived at Los Angeles airport and in short order was searched and interrogated, jailed in a small barren cell, allowed minimum food and drink -- and 26 hours later deported.
The experience might have gone unremarked, but Lappin, as it happens, is a journalist and wrote about her rude and inexcusable treatment at length in the July 4th New York Times Book Review and at even greater length and damning detail in the July 5th issue of the prestigious British paper The Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk).
Lappin had come here on a freelance assignment for The Guardian with no visa, as journalists from the 27 visa waiver countries have long done, expecting to be automatically allowed in for 90 days.
news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2004072002.html   (419 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Observer review: The Nose by Elena Lappin
Elena Lappin has written the ghost of a novel about a serene mother and grandmother with a dreadful past, unsuspected by her family.
The only bit of research Lappin seems to have done is into the British Transport Police, her chosen employers for the heroine's husband, Tim, even if the end result is only an Avengers-style scheme by neo-Nazis to destroy the Tube.
Lappin favours a melting approach to point of view, so that one character's perspective runs into another, a difficult technique to bring off, but only absolutely a mistake when, as here, your plot is all about secrets.
books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,532905,00.html   (851 words)

  
 Metroactive Books | Elena Lappin
For most of Lappin's women, the transition to "life-long sadness" comes all too quickly, as a promising-seeming marriage burns out or a loved one's death alters an already unfamiliar landscape.
LAPPIN, WHO WAS BORN in Moscow and has lived in places as far afield as Israel, London, Hamburg and Canada, is alive to the humorous aspects of cross-cultural unions.
Lappin has come up with that rare thing: a concept-driven collection that also works on a story-by-story level.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.05.99/brides-9931.html   (660 words)

  
 Proseminar Representations of Jewish Identity in Anglo-Jewish Literature in the Second Half of the 20th Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
* Elena Lappin was born in Moscow in 1954.
Lappin is currently working on her first novel The Nose.
Elena Lappin looks back on a career as a literary critic and is just beginning to work as a writer of fiction.
fb14.uni-mainz.de /~hau/semjewid/handout/lappin.htm   (191 words)

  
 BOOKS OF THE TIMES; The Language of Love: A Babylon of Emotions - New York Times
Lappin skitters with them: her sentences and scenes are uprooted along with her characters, zigzagging against expectations and sometimes running right off her own screen.
Lappin's MacGuffins need to go on a bland diet -- but also a quiet perceptiveness.
Lappin has taken us to; her art is gradually to erode the oddness and leave us moved.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D71638F93AA2575BC0A96F958260   (725 words)

  
 "Guardian reporter detained, deported from U.S.," wrote John McCrory
Elena Lappin, a fiction and nonfiction writer on a freelance assignment for The Guardian, tells of how she was detained and deported from the United States last week for no other reason but that she's a member of the press.
If Lappin had been coming here for vacation, to visit her in-laws (she's married to a U.S. citizen) or for business other than reporting, there would be no problem.
The same day Lappin was denied entry to the U.S., The American Society of Newspaper Editors used the occasion of World Press Freedom Day to call for the amendment of Section 221 (G) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow journalists short-term entry into the United States without visas.
www.johnmccrory.com /wrote.asp?this=362   (376 words)

  
 MetroActive Books | Elena Lappin
In her debut collection of short stories, Foreign Brides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $22), author Elena Lappin takes the fantasy and runs with it.
One of the problems, for Lappin, is the hidden cost of exile: "All émigrés have the same basic story to tell," says a character in one story.
Lappin, who was born in Moscow and has lived in places as far afield as Israel, England, Germany, and Canada, is alive to the humorous aspects of cross-cultural unions.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.02.99/brides-9935.html   (711 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - elena, Fiction Books, Postcards, Records items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
57) ELENA GERHARDT, Sopran mit Solo-Violine auf ak.
Elena - Magic Land - Boliviano - 1963
For The Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George
search.ebay.co.uk /elena_W0QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2QQsaatcZ3   (348 words)

  
 ASNE - British journalist expelled for not having special visa
Elena Lappin, who lives in London, arrived in California on Monday, May 3 -- ironically, World Press Freedom Day -- to write a story for the British daily newspaper The Guardian.
Lappin, 50, was put on a flight back to London yesterday afternoon.
Lappin edited the Jewish Quarterly from 1994 to 1997, and has written for such British publications as The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Times of London.
www.asne.org /index.cfm?ID=5230   (526 words)

  
 The Rebel Angels
In ''Framed,'' meanwhile, a German woman chooses to flee to Israel with the shy scholar who is helping her convert to Judaism rather than marry the woefully egocentric writer for whom she is becoming a Jew.
Most often, Lappin, who was born in Moscow, raised in Prague and Hamburg and now lives in London, casts her characters into a sort of romantic no man's land, where happiness and despair make equal claims on the heart's disputed turf.
What makes Lappin's stories so effective is not just her resolute honesty and sense of emotional adventure but also her exquisitely dark humor.
partners.nytimes.com /books/99/08/22/reviews/990822.22amidont.html   (691 words)

  
 Elena Lappin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
She lives, since 1993, in London where she edited the Jewish Quarterly from 1994 to 1997.In 2004, Elena Lappin became known as one of the journalists deported from the United States due to a lesser known requirement for journalists to apply for a peculiar kind of visa.
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didgeridooman.com /268754_elena-lappin_0312267371foreignbridesbookre...   (444 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Foreign Brides: Livres en anglais: Elena Lappin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
But Lappin is a funny and formidable talent, and her next project--a novel with the intriguing, Gogolian title of The Nose--should be worth sniffing out as soon as it hits the shelves.
The jerky rhythms and brute candor of the 12 stories in Lappin's first collection arise from the imperfect, second-language English spoken by the author's brazen heroines.
Noa, of "Noa and Noah" (who is an Israeli, like many of Lappin's characters), thinks "**** that" to keeping kosher for the sake of her British husband, NoahAa supercilious, newly moneyed debt collector who picked her up in a Tel Aviv disco and moved her into his chrome-and-glass London flat.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312267371   (768 words)

  
 Deportations upset media groups | The San Diego Union-Tribune
LOS ANGELES – When freelance journalist Elena Lappin boarded United Airlines Flight 935 from London to Los Angeles International Airport, she envisioned exploring the City of Angels and succumbing to its laid-back charm.
Instead, the most Lappin saw of the city on her truncated trip in May were glimpses of nighttime urban Los Angeles through the metal bars of a security van.
Detained upon arrival by immigration officials, then clapped in handcuffs, the British national was told she would have to be deported.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040712/news_1n12deported.html   (528 words)

  
 The Rebel Angels - New York Times
The women who populate Elena Lappin's fine debut short story collection approach relationships with the reckless spirit of tourists traveling without visas -- they would rather rely on improvisation and luck to get where they're going than follow a set of binding conventions.
Time and again, Lappin shows us that temerity is often the only path to happiness.
In fact, if the book has a significant flaw, it is that Lappin occasionally leans on the irony button a bit too hard, especially in her finales, which have a tendency to be so tightly twisted that the life is squeezed out of them.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E7DB1439F931A1575BC0A96F958260   (490 words)

  
 IFEX ::
Lappin, who lives in London, went to Los Angeles to carry out interviews for an article in the British daily "The Guardian".
After being detained on arrival at Los Angeles airport on the evening of 3 May, Lappin was interrogated "for a long time," she said.
She was then subjected to a body search, and her bags were also searched.
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/58696   (697 words)

  
 Idiotprogrammer » 2004 » June
Apparently, I was the last person in the blogosphere to read this article by Elena Lappin about her terrible treatment by US Customs, but here it is:
Here’s a slate piece Elena Lappin wrote about Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim.
I realize that Lappin’s treatment at LAX was inexusable, but even she has to realize that it furthered her writing reputation more than anything else she had written.
www.imaginaryplanet.net /weblogs/idiotprogrammer/index.php?m=20040626   (540 words)

  
 Yule Heibel’s Post Studio © 2003-2006 » Elena Lappin’s ordeal at LA Airport: journalists, beware
Elena Lappin’s ordeal at LA Airport: journalists, beware
Has anyone else read up on the story of Elena Lappin’s ordeal in the US?
I first read about it here a couple of days ago, but it doesn’t seem to have raised much of a stink within the States.
blogs.law.harvard.edu /yulelog/2004/05/12/elena-lappins-ordeal-at-la-airport-journalists-beware   (146 words)

  
 Unknown News
Lappin, who lives in London, went to Los Angeles to carry out interviews with a view to writing an article for the British daily The Guardian.
Born in Russia, Lappin is a writer and journalist.
Her articles have been published in Britain (The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times), Germany (Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and the United States (New York Observer, Granta).
www.unknownnews.org /040514rsf.html   (2018 words)

  
 Elena Lappin : Foreign Brides : Book Review
Elena Lappin : Foreign Brides : Book Review
Elena Lappin was born in Moscow and grew up in Prague and Hamburg.
She has lived in Israel, Canada, and the United States, and now lives in London.
mostlyfiction.com /world/lappin.htm   (350 words)

  
 Harlot Red: Prize-Winning Short Stories by Women, Vol. 1 - PowerBookSearch!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 2001, the Asham Literary Trust organized the third bl-annual competition of short stories by women in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived.
The competition attracted over nine hundred entries of which the judges selected 12 which are published here, together with commissioned stories by Louise Doughty, Patricia Duncker, A.L. Kennedy, Elena Lappin, Kate Pullinger and Carol Shields.
The result is a collection of stories that successfully blends the work of established writers with new authors and taken together represents the very best of contemporary short story writing.
www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch1852428155.html   (301 words)

  
 Nextbook: All in the Family
At the heart of this didactic play, there is no heart.
Elena Lappin is a novelist, journalist, and occasional blogger living in London.
She is writing a book about the Song of Songs for Nextbook's Jewish Encounters series.
www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=208   (997 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kimhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Kimhi" at HighBeam.
Book review: Normally neurotic; Elena Lappin explores the Israeli realities that news ignores; Weeping Susannah by Alona Kimhi, trans.
Economic development, agricultural change, and economic demography: discussion.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06964.html   (278 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Jewish Voices, German Words: Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria: English Books: Elena ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Amazon.de: Jewish Voices, German Words: Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria: English Books: Elena Lappin,Krishna Winston
Lappin, a Jew who spent part of her childhood in Germany, has compiled an anthology of 14 gifted Jewish authors who write in German and share the experience of growing up in post-Holocaust Germany and Austria.
The selections are drawn from fiction, memoirs, essays and poetry, and deal with the search for a Jewish identity as well as feelings of alienation stemming from past and current anti-Semitism.
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0945774230   (406 words)

  
 Portrait: 'Atta in Hamburg' by Elena Lappin | Prospect Magazine September 2002 issue 78
Portrait: 'Atta in Hamburg' by Elena Lappin
Hamburg used to be known for such trivial charms as the Reeperbahn red-light district, and as the place where the Beatles had their first international success.
John Updike has tried and largely failed to convey the interior life of an Arab-American terrorist
www.prospect-magazine.co.uk /article_details.php?id=5362   (487 words)

  
 Kafka, Canadians and Cricket
It seems freelance reporter Elena Lappin failed to produce a press visa upon her arrival here at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) – and this led airport officials to handcuff her and take her to a detention center.
I was treated like a criminal, handcuffed, fingerprinted and mug shots were taken.
Lappin’s Los Angeles Times article, reprinted many places since, explains it all.
www.justabovesunset.com /id234.html   (3157 words)

  
 Idiotprogrammer » Blog Archive » Elena Lappin the Novelist
Idiotprogrammer » Blog Archive » Elena Lappin the Novelist
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