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Essay The Model of a Modern Major Novelist Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterFor his two minutes (two minutes? read more here…) during the Network conference (200 authors in 3 days! Oh my!),… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 28, 2010
Essay Consider Your Audience In her last posts, Miriam Libicki blogged on taking Egged buses across Israel and on her process of drawing comic books. She has been blogging… Miriam Libicki May 28, 2010
Essay Egged Bus Life In her last post, Miriam Libicki blogged on her process for creating the comic series jobnik. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Miriam Libicki May 26, 2010
Essay The Evolution of a Page: jobnik! 8, Page 11 Miriam Libicki, an American Jewish girl from a religious home, enlists in the Israeli Army one summer against everyone’s better judgment. Many qualities seem to… Miriam Libicki May 24, 2010
Essay Fiction from The New Yorker: Nathan Englander Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis coming week’s New Yorker features fiction by Nathan Englander: “Free Fruit for Young Widows”When the Egyptian President… Nathan Englander May 14, 2010
Essay Notes from Mishkenot Sha’ananim: Aharon Appelfeld and Nicole Krauss Bob Goldfarb has been blogging all week at the Writers’ Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. More than a generation separates novelist Nicole Krauss,… Bob Goldfarb May 7, 2010