A kibbutz (Hebrew:  'gathering, clustering') is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture.  The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania.  Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises.   Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism.  In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle.  A member of a kibbutz is called a kibbutznik.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz   

Kibitzer is a Yiddish term for a person who offers (often unwanted) advice or commentary, especially a spectator of mind sports  The terms may refer to:  The Kibitzer, a 1930 American comedy film; Bernie Kibbitz, from list of All That characters, portrayed by Josh Server; and Sid Kibbitz, from list of Doonesbury characters  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibitzer_(disambiguation)     

inveigle  verb

to win over by wiles : ENTICE

to acquire by ingenuity or flattery : WANGLE

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inveigle   

Sigrid Nunez was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father.  She received her BA from Barnard College (1972) and her MFA from Columbia University (1975), after which she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books.  Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, and What Are You Going Through.  She is also the author of Sempre Susan:  A Memoir of Susan Sontag.  Her ninth novel, The Vulnerables, was published in November, 2023.  Among the journals to which Nunez has contributed are The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Threepenny Review, the London Review of Books, and The Wall Street Journal.  Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature.  One of her short stories was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019.  Nunez, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, is also the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature.  Nunez is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, Syracuse, and the University of California, Irvine, among others.  Nunez has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and of several other writers’ conferences across the country.  Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.  She lives in New York City.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_Nunez    

back-form  (BAK-form) verb tr.: To make a word by dropping an apparent affix from a longer word.  Back-formation from back-formation. Earliest documented use:  1911.  The word make has been with us from at least 1150.  We later added the suffix -er to make maker (from 1297).  Had maker come first, and we made make from it by removing a part, that would be a back-formation.  To back-form is to coin a new word (usually a verb) by removing an actual or supposed affix from another word (usually a noun). Examples:  the verb burgle, formed from the noun burglar   the verb emote, formed from the noun emotion  the verb vacuum clean, formed from the noun vacuum cleaner   The word back-form itself is back-formed from back-formation.  “The verb edit was back-formed from editor.”  R.M.W. Dixon; Making New Words; Oxford University Press; 2014.   A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg   

John Treadwell Nichols (1940–November 27, 2023) was an American novelist.   Nichols was the author of the "New Mexico trilogy", a series about the complex relationship among history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional town of Chamisaville, New Mexico.  The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which was adapted into a movie of the same title directed by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues.  Two of his other novels have been made into films.  The Sterile Cuckoo was adapted for a film by Alan J. Pakula in 1969.  The Wizard of Loneliness was published in 1966, and the film version with Lukas Haas was made in 1988.  He also had a hand, uncredited due to a decision in an arbitration with the Writers Guild, in the Oscar-winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Costa-Gavras' 1982 film Missing.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nichols_(writer)   

Stars came to D.C. December 3, 2023 to celebrate this year's Kennedy Center Honorees:  Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb and Queen Latifah, who became the first female rapper to win the prestigious award.  https://www.npr.org/2023/12/04/1215901880/queen-latifah-billy-crystal-and-others-celebrated-at-kennedy-center-honors   

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