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    Essay

    Writ­ing About My Friends and Relatives

    Ear­li­er this week, Andrea Simon wrote about trans­form­ing her fam­i­ly mem­oir into a nov­el and the research she puts into fic­tion writ­ing—par­tic­u­lar­ly for her new…
    Andrea Simon
    December 5, 2016
    Essay

    12 His­toric Forverts Front Pages

    Ezra Glin­ter is the edi­tor of the new sto­ry anthol­o­gy Have I Got a Sto­ry for You: More Than a Cen­tu­ry of Fic­tion from The For­ward. With the offi­cial…
    Ezra Glin­ter
    December 5, 2016
    Essay

    Bron­të, Bey­on­cé, and the Case for Mediocre Adap­ta­tions of Great Literature

    Inter­nal Dia­logue is a Jew­ish Book Coun­cil blog series on lit­er­ary trends, ideas, and dis­cus­sions of inter­est to Jew­ish read­ers and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­ers,…
    Nat Bern­stein
    December 2, 2016
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: Turned Inside Out

    Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinI was so tak­en with the con­tent of Steven Shankman’s Turned Inside Out: Read­ing the Russ­ian Nov­el in Prison I almost failed to notice the book…
    Nat Bern­stein
    December 1, 2016
    Essay

    If It Did­n’t Exact­ly Hap­pen, Can It Be True?

    Ear­li­er this week, Andrea Simon​’s wrote about trans­form­ing her fam­i­ly mem­oir into a nov­el, which was pub­lished ear­li­er this month: Esfir Is Alive. Andrea is…
    Andrea Simon
    November 30, 2016
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    Jew­ish Book Coun­cil Staff Picks for Novem­ber 2016

    Car­olLast week, in the wake of Don­ald Trump’s vic­to­ry and Leonard Cohen’s death, I reached for Liel Lei­bovitz’s thought­ful and illu­mi­nat­ing 2013 med­i­ta­tion on…
    JBC Staff
    November 29, 2016
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