Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

In Sam Lip­sytes newest col­lec­tion, The Fun Parts (Far­rar, Straus and Giroux), he brings to life a real­i­ty-bran­dish­ing mon­ster prey­ing on a boy’s fan­ta­sy realm, the daugh­ter of a Holo­caust sur­vivor, who makes the most shock­ing leap imag­in­able to save her soul, a dooms­day hus­tler, and a griz­zled male birth doula, among oth­ers. The Fun Parts will be pub­lished on March 5th.

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Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.