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    Beyond the Book: Vanes­sa Davis Responds to Art Spiegel­man’s Co-Mix

    by Tah­neer OksmanIt can be dis­ori­ent­ing to imag­ine your favorite car­toon­ist’s works hang­ing in a muse­um. How do you pre­serve the intense­ly pri­vate and inti­mate…
    Tah­neer Oksman
    February 12, 2014
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    Is Plot vs. Char­ac­ter Real­ly Male vs. Female?

    Post­ed by Miri Pomer­antz DauberA few months ago, The New York Times’ Book Review sec­tion ran a ​“Book­ends” item that asked, ​“Are we too con­cerned that char­ac­ters be…
    Miri Pomer­antz Dauber
    February 12, 2014
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    Begin­ning a Lit­er­ary Career

    Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch. His newest nov­el, Shlep­ping the Exile, will be pub­lished by St. Mar­t­in’s Press next week. He will be blog­ging here all week for…
    Michael Wex
    February 10, 2014
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    On Edith Pearlman

    Ear­li­er this week, Mol­ly Antopol wrote about Chaim Potok’s The Cho­sen. Her debut sto­ry col­lec­tion, The UnAmer­i­cans, was pub­lished this week by W. W. Nor­ton…
    Mol­ly Antopol
    February 6, 2014
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    On Chaim Potok’s The Chosen

    Mol­ly Antopol is a recent Wal­lace Steg­n­er Fel­low and cur­rent Jones Lec­tur­er at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. She’s a recip­i­ent of the 5 Under 35 award from…
    Mol­ly Antopol
    February 4, 2014
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    Every Word Counts

    Ear­li­er this week, Joshua Max Feld­man wrote about why he chose to write a nov­el based on the Book of Jon­ah and who would be on his Jew­ish Mount Rush­more. His debut…
    Joshua Max Feldman
    January 31, 2014
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