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    Are You, Or Have You Ever Been, a Jew­ish Writer?

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterGabriel Brown­stein reflects on what it means to be a Jew­ish writer, mus­es on the clas­sic greats (Roth, Ozick, Mala­mud, Bel­low),…
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    2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture Finalists

    FINAL­ISTS FOR ROHR PRIZE IN FIC­TION ANNOUNCEDFIVE EMERG­ING AUTHORS OF PROMISEIN RUN­NING FOR $100K PRIZE2011 AWARD CER­E­MO­NY TO BE HELD MAY 31 IN NEW…
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    February 10, 2011
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    Book Cov­er of the Day: The Ask

    Com­ing out in paper­back on March 1st…
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    February 2, 2011
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    London’s Jew­ish Book Week

    For those of you who are (lucky) Lon­don­ers, now is the time to buy your tick­ets for London’s 2011 Jew­ish Book Week (Feb. 26th-March 6th). This year’s ses­sions…
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    January 6, 2011
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    Count­down to Blue Nude

    Our Twit­ter Book Club with Eliz­a­beth Ros­ner, author of Blue Nude, is only a week and a day away. We hope you’ve had the chance to get your hands on the…
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    January 4, 2011
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    Tree of Codes

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterVan­i­ty Fair inter­views Jonathan Safran Foer’s on his lat­est…Tree of Codes:Tree of Codes was cre­at­ed by slic­ing out chunks of text from…
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    November 15, 2010
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    The Pow­er of Half

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Fire­stone-TeeterThe Jew­ish Book Coun­cil has been spread­ing the good (book) word down here in New Orleans. This morn­ing we had the plea­sure of pre­sent­ing…
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    November 8, 2010
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    Excerpt from Yael Hedaya’s Eden

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThe fall issue of Zeek is now avail­able! The newest issue fea­tures fic­tion from Yael Gold­stein Love. Also, check out an…
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    October 19, 2010
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    Favorite Fic­tion­al Jew­ish Characters

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIn hon­or of Rosh Hashanah (and in time for Yom Kip­pur), The Huff­in­g­ton Post (and Huff­Post read­ers) share their favorite Jew­ish…
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    September 16, 2010
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    Rab­bi Har­vey Inter­views Gary Shteyngart

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterRab­bi Har­vey inter­views Gary Shteyn­gart (Super Sad True Love Sto­ry) for JBooks​.com here.And, check out the trail­er for Super…
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    July 20, 2010
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    Israeli Flash Fic­tion Reviewed on Words With­out Borders

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIsrael nov­el­ist and short-sto­ry writer Alex Epstein’s flash fic­tion col­lec­tion, Blue Has No South, is reviewed by Jonathan Blitzer…
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    June 24, 2010
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    Gary Shteyn­gart writes fic­tion for The New Yorker

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterAmong his many oth­er achieve­ments, Gary Shteyn­gart was just named one of The New York­er​‘s 20 under 40 fic­tion writ­ers. Check out his…
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    June 14, 2010

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