book clubs

Ear­li­er this week, Bar­bara Stark-Nemon wrote about writ­ing visu­al arts into lit­er­a­ture and how her fam­i­ly chose to remem­ber Ger­many after World War II. She is the…

Post­ed by Miri Pomer­antz DauberWith the pub­li­ca­tion of Kristin Han­nah’s new book, The Nightin­gale, ear­li­er this month, JBC Book Clubs worked in coop­er­a­tion with…

Post­ed by Miri Pomer­antz DauberThe Post­script series is a spe­cial peek ​“behind the scenes” of a book. It’s a juicy lit­tle extra some­thing to add to…

What trends in adult lit­er­a­ture often sees its reflec­tion in children’s pub­li­ca­tions — and now, more than ever, the oth­er way around. In review­ing the 2014 – 2015 JBC…

This week, JBC Net­work author Wendy Wax, the author of While We Were Watch­ing Down­ton Abbey, blogs for The Post­script on the inspi­ra­tion for writ­ing her newest book. …

This week, Lau­ren Grod­stein, the author of The Expla­na­tion for Every­thing, A Friend of the Fam­i­ly, and Repro­duc­tion is the Flaw of Love and the sto­ry col­lec­tion…

This week, David Schmah­mann, the author of The Dou­ble Life of Alfred Buber, Empire Set­tings, and Ivory From Par­adise, blogs for The Post­script on the risk of being…

JBC Book Clubs is ask­ing: what does it take to lead a book club?** We start­ed this series hear­ing from Sarah Rind­ner about the exten­sive research she does before…

This week, Bar­bara Aske­nas and Michal Smart, co-edi­tors of the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award-win­ning book Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voic­es blogs for The Post­script on why…

This week, Alyson Rich­man, the author of The Lost Wife and the forth­com­ing The Gar­den of Let­ters (com­ing in Sep­tem­ber from Berkley) blogs for The…

This week, Jean Hanff Kore­litz, the author of You Should Have Known (avail­able today from Grand Cen­tral Pub­lish­ing) as well as four pre­vi­ous nov­els, a poet­ry…