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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Jump Artist Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterSami Rohr Prize Winner Austin Ratner’s The Jump Artist is now available in the UK, with this beauty of a cover: Review in… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 26, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: You Exist Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOK, good to know. Read more here.You Exist. Details Follow. is Stuart Ross’s seventh full-length collection of poetry. In these poems,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 17, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Electric Dreamland Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLauren Rabinovitz’s Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity, will pub from Columbia University Press on… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 10, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The People of Forever Are Not Afraid Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterShani Boianjiu, the youngest recipient ever of the National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 Award, for which she was chosen by Nicole… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 3, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Your Voice in My Head Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEmma Forrest’s memoir, Your Voice in My Head, will be available in paperback on July 10th from Other Press:Bonus:… Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 27, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Looking For Me Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterBetsy R. Rosenthal’s newest book, Looking For Me…In This Great Big Family, was published in April:One of 12 siblings growing up in… Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 21, 2012
Interview The Birth of a Book Cover: Moving Waters Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterEver wonder about the story behind a book’s cover? Well, we do. All the time. So, we asked Racelle Rosett, and the team behind her… Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 18, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Moving Waters Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis week’s book cover of the week is Network author Racelle Rosett’s collection Moving Waters. Cover art is by Will Deutsch… Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 4, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Old Blue Couch Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterReceived this little guy in the mail today and fell for the cover, paper quality, and interior page layout. It’s clearly been shown some… Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 1, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: In Sunlight and in Shadow Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPubbing in October from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:New York in 1947 glows with post-war energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 24, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: One Last Thing Before I Go Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterYou may remember Jonathan Tropper from his best-selling novel This is Where I Leave You (or maybe one of his other fine… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 15, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Jerusalem Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterDrawn and Quarterly published Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City in April. Click here for… Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 8, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Middlesteins Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLook out for Jami Attenberg’s latest novel, scheduled for publication this October: Naomi Firestone-Teeter May 1, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Mile End Cookbook Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe Mile End Cookbook: Redefining Jewish Comfort Food from Hash to Hamantaschen (Noah and Rae Bernamoff) will be published by… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 24, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Liebestod Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe great Leslie Epstein’s newest novel, Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn, was published by W. W. Norton in February.A… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 17, 2012
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Einstein’s Jewish Science Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterTo add to our ever-growing collection of Einstein-themed titles is this new one: Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 10, 2012