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Essay Home Away Lara Vapnyar moved from Moscow to Brooklyn in 1994. Knowing very little English, she quickly picked up the language and soon began writing in it. Her most recent novel,… Lara Vapnyar January 7, 2014
Essay Is Your Husband Black? Mary Glickman is an author, a former free-lance copywriter, public relations professional, and fundraiser who has worked with many Jewish charities and… Mary Glickman December 23, 2013
Essay Can We Print “Motherfucker” Here? Yesterday, Josh Lambert wrote about how he came to write his newest book, Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture (NYU Press). He will be blogging here all… Josh Lambert December 17, 2013
Essay How Did You Come to Write That Book, Anyway? Josh Lambert is the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center and as Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.… Josh Lambert December 16, 2013
Essay Lusting for Pens and Pencils Earlier this week, Lily Brett wrote about why she didn’t become a lawyer. Her newest book, Lola Bensky: A Novel (Counterpoint), is now available. She will be… Lily Brett October 23, 2013
Essay What, I’m Jewish! You Want I Should Write a Happy Ending? This week, Allison Amend, the author of A Nearly Perfect Copy and the Sami Rohr Prize finalist Stations West, blogs for The Postscript on the endings and… Allison Amend September 17, 2013
Interview Interview: Martin Fletcher by Sarah ShewchukMartin Fletcher is the author of four books, most recently Jacob’s Oath. A five-time Emmy-winning television news correspondent who has worked for… Sarah Shewchuk September 11, 2013
Essay Am I a Jewish Writer or a Writer Who Happens to Be Jewish? This week, Ellen Feldman, the author of several books, blogs for The Postscript on her thoughts about being a Jewish writer. The Postscript series is… Ellen Feldman July 24, 2013
Essay Becoming an Anthologist Earlier this week, Ron Rubin wrote about visiting the Soviet Union/Former Soviet Union and Peri Devaney wrote about working on the Postcript for her anthology,… Peri Devaney July 24, 2013
Essay The Difficulty of Naming Cats…and Characters This week, Anne Cherian, the author of The Invitation blogs for The Postscript on how to find the right names for her characters. The Postscript series is… Anne Cherian July 16, 2013
Essay Not All Autobiographical Elements Are Created Equal Ilan Mochari’s novel, Zinsky the Obscure (Fomite Press), is now available. He is Chief Writer for The Build Network and a contributor to Cognoscenti, the online… Ilan Mochari July 8, 2013
Interview Interview: Jay Neugeboren by Beth KissileffI recently had an opportunity to speak with veteran author Jay Neugeboren by phone for Jewish Book Council. This was appropriate because the ability… Beth Kissileff June 18, 2013
Essay Living in Hebrew, Thinking in Aramaic, Writing in English Earlier this week, Janice Weizman wrote about writing historical fiction and the bildungsroman and the Jewish woman. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish… Janice Weizman June 7, 2013
Essay On Writing a Novel About The Act of Writing a Novel Earlier this week, David Samuel Levinson wrote about the beautiful catastrophe that is New York City and dedicating his first novel, Antonia Lively Breaks the… David Samuel Levinson June 6, 2013
Essay Writing What You’ve Never Seen: Janice Weizman and Historical Fiction Earlier this week, Janice Weizman wrote about the bildungsroman and the Jewish woman. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Janice Weizman June 5, 2013
Essay What We Talk About When We Talk About Book Dedications David Samuel Levinson’s stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, and the Brooklyn Review, among others. He lives in New York City. Antonia Lively Breaks the… David Samuel Levinson June 4, 2013
