To my Just Lassen to Me! readers and friends: In the summer of 2005, I started my 15-year journey to contemplate and write down what had transpired, and why, in my life with my finagling entrepreneurial father and tumultuous immigrant family. With the final volume of my memoir series published in May, and then having updated all of my books (they can be found on www.IngramSpark.com and soon on www.Amazon.com and other online outlets), my journey is complete. It was…..
Just Lassen to Me! – Book Three: Survivor Learning has been recently published on Ingram Spark. It is available there, Amazon, and on most online outlets. After fourteen years of authoring, the third volume of Just Lassen to Me! brings more twists, turns, and tumult in Harvy’s relationship with his finagling entrepreneurial father and afflicted immigrant family. New players try to help heal the family and quiet the commotion. Inroads are fashioned, but will such efforts provide success and…..
Lynn Verge, Director of Atwater Library, accepts Harvy Simkovits’ memoir into their collection. May 6, 2019.
Harvy recently spoke at Temple Isaiah on: How Was I Blessed with Such a Finagling Father and Inflicted Family. Feedback from the organizers: Really enjoyed your family history and how you integrated everything, including both the hard times and the good times. And you enriched it with a great presentation! Thank you! Your presentation was great. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks again for coming to the temple and speaking to us. Some unsolicited…..
Kirkus Review, a prestigious, renown book reviewer, recently published a review of Just Lassen to Me! Here are some excerpts: Simkovits recounts his struggle to come to terms with his father’s morally questionable financial dealings in this first memoir in a series. He captures this emotional situation in lucid prose… The author’s remembrance is impressively sensitive as he tells of his father’s financial skulduggery, and he unabashedly shares his admiration for him, as well. He realistically portrays his complex parent…..
Harvy will be talking on, “How Was I Blessed with Such an Infamous Father and Inflicted Family?” at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA on Thursday, April 4 at 7-9PM. Harvy will tell humorous and poignant stories tied to 25-30 photographs from his riveting memoir, “Just Lassen to Me! – A First-Generation Son’s Story: Surviving a Survivor.” Books will also be for available after the presentation. See the attached flyer below for more details. Just Lassen to Me – Temple Isaiah…..
Harvy will speak at a TEDx talk to be held in the afternoon of Friday, March 8 at Lexington High School. The topic will be “The Power of Personal Research and Poignant Writing to Survive Family Mishigas.” A video of his 15-minute talk will be posted here sometime afterwards. Harvy will also be speaking on Thursday evening, April 4, 7-9PM, at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA on the topic of “How Was I Blessed with Such an Infamous Father and…..
An article about Harvy Simkovits and Just Lassen to Me! will be published in March by PUBLISHED! Magazine. Stay tuned for updates.
Harvy has been approached to speak at a TEDx talk to be held in the afternoon of Friday, March 8 at Lexington High School. More details will be forthcoming over the next weeks. The topic will be “The Power of Personal Research and Poignant Writing to Survive Family Mishigas”. Harvy will be speaking on Thursday , April 4, 7-9PM, at Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA on the topic of “How Was I Blessed with Such an Infamous Father and Inflicted…..
To date, $2300 has been donated to organizations like the UUUM (www.uuum.org) in Boston to support programs that assist victims of domestic abuse and violence.