An Interview With Leslie Epstein

Leslie Epstein (1938–2025) published ten novels, including King of the Jews (reprinted by Other Press, 2004), The Eighth Wonder of the World (Other, 2006), and Liebestod (W. W. Norton & Co., 2012). In 2007, his stage adaptation of King of the Jews was produced by the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and again at the Olney Theatre in Maryland; it premiered Off-Broadway in 2023. A longtime member of AGNI’s Advisory Board, Epstein directed the Creative Writing Program at Boston University for more than thirty years.

“A Conversation with Leslie Epstein” by Mark Brownlow appeared in AGNI 39. Brownlow reviewed Epstein’s novel Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail in AGNI 51.

Mark Brownlow is the new fiction review editor at AGNI. He recently returned to the U.S. after teaching for several years in Thailand. He has written for the Boston Phoenix and previously for AGNI. (2000)