Summary: Peter’s Moonlight Photography and Other Stories

Influenced by the Czech artist Mucha’s series on women and seasons, the title story of Dina S. Rabadi’s debut fiction collection follows an aging moonlight photographer’s quest for success and his models’ (all ordinary women) quest for a sense of beauty.  Like the women in Mucha’s series, each of the women represents a season—summer, fall, winter and spring and in representing seasons represents Everywoman.  Other stories range in theme and setting from the questionable success of the building of the atomic bomb to a motherless Spanish boy who becomes a perfume maker in the south of France.  Several of Rabadi’s stories have been published in various periodicals including Fiction (2003 short story finalist.)

Editorial Reviews

 "... wit, charm, feeling, depth"--David Evanier, Author, The One-Star Jew and former fiction editor, The Paris Review.

"These are stories Harold Ross would have chosen for the New Yorker because they are so intelligent and literate, but stories about an America he could have never envisioned.  Dina Rabadi offers an honest voice about the country that evolved.  They are haunting, lonely and so true."-- Vincent J. Schodolski, author and previous West Coast Bureau Chief, The Chicago Tribune

"Dina Rabadi guides us through the labyrinthine complexities of human relationships, embedded as they are in the world of nature."--Abel Alves, Professor of History and author of The Animals in Spain

Publications: Newspapers and magazines

 “U.S. drags feet on ratifying UN treaty on women’s rights,” The Chicago Tribune, Perspective Section, Sunday, June 13, 2004

“President Bush, Have You Ever Been in Love?”  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 15, 2004

“U.S. can learn from Mideast,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (simultaneous run of my Shirin Ebadi oped) December 9, 2003

“Iranian Sets High Standard,” The Miami Herald (simultaneous run of my Shirin Ebadi oped) December 9, 2003

“Women’s Rights in Mideast?  How about here in U.S.?”  The Sacramento Bee, December 8, 2003

“Silver Boxes,” Fiction, Vol. 19 No. 1, Finalist, 2003 Short Story Competition.

“La << X Generation>> americana fa I conti con l’islam” (Gen X and Terrorism piece re-printed in interview format by renowned Italian journalist, Ivana Arnaldi, for one of largest papers in Italy) October 29, 2003

“Gen X Cares about meeting world’s concerns,” The Detroit News, September 25, 2003 (reprint of Boston Globe piece)                                                                                                                                 

"White Woman's Burden," Chowk.com, September 24, 2005 (simultaneous run of Little India essay)

“War on Terrorism Hits Home for Generation X,” The Boston Globe, September 10, 2003

“The Courage to Love,” Little India (largest circulating Indian publication in America) March, 2003

“Bearded-Lady Saint Offers Comfort to a Generation in Waiting,” The Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2002

“Avoiding the bearded lady’s fate,” The Charlotte Observer, June 1, 2002 (simultaneous run of Los Angeles Times commentary) 

“Life Support: Happily Married, Someday,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 5, 2002 (simultaneous run of my Los Angeles Times commentary)

“Why Not Welcome Nation’s Evolution?” The Baltimore Sun, December 28, 2001

“The Phone Call,” Downstate Story Magazine, Winter Issue, 2002

“The Last Dance,” Oxygen, March 17, 2000

“Watershots,” The Armchair Aesthete, Literary Magazine, Winter 2000, Issue 12

“Tossing Darts,” Indianapolis Woman, May 1999

“City widens marijuana limit for medicinal use,” The Chicago Tribune, Thursday, July 23, 1998.

“Trial by Fire: Internships are a Vital Way to Set Yourself Apart from the Competition,” The Chicago Tribune, Sunday, March 15, 1998

“Ten Ways I Was Brought up Right,” ParentGuide News, January 1998

“Reasons Why Gen-Xers Don’t Vote,” The Indianapolis News, November 1996

“No Boys Allowed,” Blue Jean Magazine, September/October 1996

“No Boys Allowed,” excerpted in book Blue Jean: What Young Women are Thinking, Saying & Doing