Celebrate Jewish Book Month with #30days30authors! JBC invited an author to share thoughts on #JewLit for each day of Jewish Book Month. Watch, read, enjoy, and discover!
Today, Annabelle Gurwitch, author of Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To, recommends a book for you to read.
Annabelle Gurwitch is an actress, activist, and New York Times bestselling author of five books. Her most recent memoir “You’re Leaving When?” is a New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living. She’s a two-time finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing. Annabelle co-hosted the popular “Dinner & a Movie” series on TBS for six seasons and was a regular NPR commentator whose acting credits include: Seinfeld, Dexter, Better Things, and Murphy Brown. Her writing appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker and Hadassah. Annabelle has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Real Time with Bill Maher, PBS Newshour, Oprah, CBS Early Show. Appearances include: The Moth Mainstage, Carolines on Broadway, the 92nd street Y, Google Talks, The Carter Center, SXSW, George Washington University, The Cis Maisel Center for Judaic Studies, performing arts centers around the country.