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Essay Shulem Deen’s Top 10 Rules for Memoir Writing Jewish Book Council was honored to present Shulem Deen, the author of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards winner of the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award for Contemporary… Shulem Deen January 14, 2016
Essay In the Beginning(s) Anthony Schneider is the author of Repercussions, a novel about a grandfather whose South African past continues to affect his family in the generations… Anthony Schneider January 11, 2016
Essay The Scene I Cut From My Novel Is Actually the Key To It Earlier this week, Sigal Samuel wrote about envisioning a mystical experience for the twenty-first century against the traditions of Kabbalah. She is… Sigal Samuel December 23, 2015
Essay Within the Quotidian All the Secrets of Existence Are Concealed Earlier this week, György Spiró shared how the mysterious iidentity of St. Thomas led him to write Captivity. György will be blogging here all week as part of the… György Spiró November 18, 2015
Interview Interview: Sigal Samuel by Elie LichtscheinSigal Samuel is the author of the debut novel The Mystics of Mile End, published this October by William Morrow.Elie Lichtschein: The Mystics of Mile End… Elie Lichtschein October 4, 2015
Essay Memory Games Sasha Abramsky is the author of The House of Twenty Thousand Books, a memoir exploring his grandparents’ lives through their vast literary collection in London.… Sasha Abramsky August 31, 2015
Essay Diana Bletter’s Top 11 Jewish Quotes for Writers Earlier this week, Diana Bletter wrote about being not just a writer or a Jewish writer, but a Jewish woman writer. Her novel A Remarkable Kindness is… Diana Bletter August 26, 2015
Essay Of Lutis and Looters: History as the Sister of Fiction Earlier this week, Parnaz Foroutan wrote about her childhood determination to learn English after seeing a girl who looked just like her on the cover of Anne… Parnaz Foroutan August 19, 2015
Interview Interview: Barbara Klein Moss by Nat BernsteinIntrigued by a nefarious Jewish character in Barbara Klein Moss’s debut novel, Jewish Book Council sought to learn more about the sympathetic… Nat Bernstein July 28, 2015
Essay Fiction Not Facts Earlier this week, Janis Cooke Newman wrote about why she writes historical fiction. She is the author of the novel Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln and A Master Plan for… Janis Cooke Newman July 15, 2015
Interview Interview: Etgar Keret by Becca KantorIsraeli author Etgar Keret is internationally known for his short stories, graphic novels, and screenplays. His latest book, The Seven Good Years, is his… Becca Kantor June 24, 2015
Essay On Writing about Black-Jewish Relations in a Novel On Monday and Tuesday this week, Letty Cottin Pogrebinshared two passagesthat didn’t make it into her just-published novel Single Jewish Male Seeking… Letty Cottin Pogrebin May 20, 2015
Excerpt The Tropical Fish That Didn’t Make the Cut Earlier this week, Letty Cottin Pogrebin wrote about a passage that didn’t make it into her just-published novel Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate. She will… Letty Cottin Pogrebin May 19, 2015
Excerpt A Glimpse Into the Editing Process: What Didn’t Make it Into the Book Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. magazine, is the author of eleven books, most recently the just-published Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate.… Letty Cottin Pogrebin May 18, 2015
Essay The “Docu-Novel “ and My Wallenberg Hybrid-Novel Earlier this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about researching Raoul Wallenberg across the world and meeting Daniel Pagliansky, Wallenberg’s KGB interrogator. Lelchuk is the… Alan Lelchuk May 8, 2015
