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Book Cover of the Week: Oral Pleasure

Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller, published last month by Grove/Atlantic, Jerzy Kosinski’s late widow, Kikki, collects…

Naomi Firestone-Teeter

January 3, 2013

Cover of Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

Cover of Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Alexandra Popoff

Cover of Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens

Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens

Miriam Kalman Friedman

Cover of The Food Explorer: The True-Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

The Food Explorer: The True-Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Cover of The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater

The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater

Cover of My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story

My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story

Cover of Mother's Century: A Survivor, Her People and Her Times

Mother’s Century: A Survivor, Her People and Her Times

Richard L. Hermann

Cover of Renegade Women in Film & TV

Renegade Women in Film & TV

Elizabeth Weitzman

Cover of Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas

Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas

Cover of Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art

Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art

Rebecca Shaykin

Cover of Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Cover of My Life through My Dresses: Growing Up Socialist

My Life through My Dresses: Growing Up Socialist

Marina Berkovich

Cover of Waging Justice: A Doctor's Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold

Waging Justice: A Doctor’s Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold

Cover of Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender

Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender

Cover of Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement

Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement