New York Jewish fiction writer Susan Daitch‘s third novel Paper Conspiracies, which was published last week by City Lights Books, takes an indirect approach to late Nineteenth Century France’s Dreyfus Affair by way of peripheral minor actors in the scandal and via cinema pioneer Georges Mèliés‘ contemporaneous dramtized documentary film L’affaire Dreyfus . The novel’s six sections alternate between 1990s New York… [Read more…]
September 7, 2011
In my New York Journal of Books review I describe the book as “. . . a plot-driven novel conveyed in crisp, descriptive, and thought-provoking prose via an engagingly intelligent third-person narrator. . . . an auspicious debut” and recommend it to both adult and precocious young adult readers. via examiner.com
September 1, 2011
In my New York Journal of Books review I quote Ms. Miller, “Every new piece of information keeps me on the road to the ever-expanding possibility of the quest, a quest that in the end will still yield only partial knowledge–and will never give me, return to me, those past lives.” Ms. Miller, a retired… [Read more…]
July 17, 2011
May 17, 2011
Today New York publisher The Dial Press, a division of Random House, releases Haley Tanner‘s debut novel Vaclav and Lena, a coming of age tale about Russian-Jewish immigrant children in Brooklyn. In my New York Journal of Books review I describe the book as “a tale of unconditional love; of attachment, separation, and reunion; and of trauma and healing.”… [Read more…]
May 10, 2011
Today is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, and I’d like to mark the day by sharing an oral-history from The Jewish-American Marriage Oral History Project of a couple of Jewish New Yorkers and artists who throughout their half century marriage have alternated their residence between Israel and the United States. I interviewed Petach Tikvah, Israel residents Mel and Miriam Alexenberg a year… [Read more…]
April 28, 2011
In my New York Journal of Books review of Leeches I write: ”David Albahari’s challenging yet engaging, cerebral, magical-realist, experimental, post-modernist novel Leeches provides a portrait of life in Belgrade, capital of an ideologically charged and xenophobic Serbia, in the months preceding the NATO bombing campaign. As elsewhere in history, Belgrade’s Jewish community is the proverbial canary in the Serbian… [Read more…]
April 5, 2011
Read the article on examiner.com New York publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, is publishing a selection of Leonard Cohen’s poems and songs in its Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series, a series that includes some of the best loved English language poets. In my New York Journal of Books review of Leonard Cohen Poems and Songs I… [Read more…]
March 16, 2011
NY Times film critic A.O. Scott will give four lectures with illustrative film clips on The Holocaust in Film on consecutive Sunday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 PM starting this Sunday March 20, 2010 at Park Slope Jewish Center (where Mr. Scott is a member) located at Eighth Avenue and 14th Street in Brooklyn. Continue reading… [Read more…]
March 8, 2011
It is a fortunate coincidence that today is both International Women’s Day and the release date of Marge Piercy‘s The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010 by New York publisher Alfred Knopf. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Marge Piercy’s “The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010″ arrives today – New York NY | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/marge-piercy-s-the-hunger-moon-new-and-selected-poems-1980-2010-arrives-today#ixzz1G2Locgph
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