on writing

Ear­li­er this week, Leah Kamin­sky con­sid­ered the pow­er of inan­i­mate objects and speak­ing to ghosts in con­tem­po­rary lit­er­a­ture—as in her own nov­el, The Wait­ing…

Ear­li­er this week, Beth Kissileff mused on the final Bib­li­cal com­mand­ment — to write. With the release of her nov­el Ques­tion­ing Return, Beth is guest blog­ging for the…

Beth Kissileff is the author of Read­ing Gen­e­sis and a new nov­el, Ques­tion­ing Return. She is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as part of the…

Ear­li­er this week, Mar­jorie Ingall wrote about step­ping out of ghost­writ­ing to write her first book since 1998. With the pub­li­ca­tion of that book, Mamaleh Knows Best:…

Mar­jorie Ingall is a colum­nist, ghost­writer, and author of Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jew­ish Moth­ers Do to Raise Suc­cess­ful, Cre­ative, Empa­thet­ic, Inde­pen­dent…

Cindy Sil­vert is the author of The Hun­gry Love Cook­book: 30 Steamy Sto­ries, 120 Mouth­wa­ter­ing Recipes. She is guest blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing…

Ear­li­er this week, Jeff Gottes­feld shared how a news sto­ry about a dead tree inspired his first children’s book, The Tree in the Court­yard. Jeff is guest blog­ging…

Fol­low­ing Anne Frank’s birth­day over the week­end, The Tree in the Court­yard author Jeff Gottes­feld is guest blog­ging for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as part of the…

Bar­bara Kreiger is the author of The Dead Sea and the Jor­dan Riv­er, a chron­i­cle of the nat­ur­al and human his­to­ry of two of the Mid­dle East’s most icon­ic bod­ies…

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is proud to intro­duce read­ers to the five emerg­ing non­fic­tion authors named as final­ists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture.…

Ear­li­er this week, Tah­neer Oks­man tra­versed the depic­tions of space in women’s graph­ic mem­oirs includ­ed in her book ​“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and…

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is proud to intro­duce read­ers to the five emerg­ing non­fic­tion authors named as final­ists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture.…

With the recent release of her book ​“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Iden­ti­ty in Con­tem­po­rary Graph­ic Mem­oirs, author (and fre­quent…