Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
J Lit Links from around town…
- An interview with Israeli author Eshkol Nevo (Homesick) in World Literature Today. Stay tuned for the Jewish Book World interview with Eshkol in the winter issue!
- Hey, Aaron Lansky, get your truck over to 21 St, fast! The NYTimes reports that the “only secular Yiddish bookstore in New York” is about to lose its home.
- Tablet examines one of the (smaller) Jewish characters in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom
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- Vicki of Jewlicious says that Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story is “a funhouse reflection of the world we live in, reflected back with razor-sharp wit.”
- Variety reports that Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are being considered for parts in the film version of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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