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Recommended Reading If You Read Just Ten Stories by Sholem Aleichem… Earlier this week, Jeremy Dauber wrote about touring with his recently published biography, The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem (Schocken Books/Nextbook Press). Want to win… Jeremy Dauber October 10, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis irresistible collection of stories by Stefan Zweig (translated by Anthea Bell) will be published by Pushkin Press in November… Naomi Firestone-Teeter August 6, 2013
Fiction Who Will Die Last: Stories of Life in Israel David Ehrlich; Ken Frieden, ed.; Various Translators
Essay Digging Deep into the Soul in the Heart of Iowa We prompted this year’s Sami Rohr Prize awardees to write about “how they came to write their book.” Over the next several weeks, we’ll share their responses. Today, Stuart… Stuart Nadler April 29, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: A Guide to Being Born Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC Network author Ramona Ausubel, whose debut novel No One is Here Except All of Us was one of my favorite book’s of 2012, has a new… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 4, 2013
Recommended Reading The Best Place on Earth Earlier this week, Nancy Richler discussed the perspective of her novel The Imposter Bride and why she decided to forgo research. She has been blogging here for… Nancy Richler March 8, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: What We Talk About When We Talk About… Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe paperback edition of Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories will be published on March 5th… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 1, 2013
