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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Elie Wiesel Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterElie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives (Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen, eds.), published by Indiana University… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 17, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: La Famille Middlestein Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterA little foreign edition book cover love today. Presenting the French cover of Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins:Find book club… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 10, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Some Day Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNew Vessel Press, an independent publishing house founded in NYC last year, is about to release their first six titles. Specializing in… Naomi Firestone-Teeter June 18, 2013
Essay In Our Time: Book Covers from R. B. Kitaj’s Personal Library by Jackie AnzarootThe Jewish Museum has opened a new exhibit titled R. B. Kitaj: Personal Library featuring the work of R. B. Kitaj, famed Jewish American artist… Jackie Anzaroot May 3, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The New Persian Kitchen Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC Network author Louisa Shafia returns with her latest cookbook, The New Persian Kitchen (Ten Speed Press). If this one is… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 25, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Zinsky the Obscure Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOut this week: Ilan Mochari’s debut novel Zinsky the Obscure. Read more about Ilan Mochari here and find the book’s official website… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 17, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Book of Schmaltz Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterMichael Ruhlman’s The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song of a Forgotten Fat, which is currently available for iPads, will be published as an… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 9, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: A Guide to Being Born Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC Network author Ramona Ausubel, whose debut novel No One is Here Except All of Us was one of my favorite book’s of 2012, has a new… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 4, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Kosher Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterA new title pubbing from Harvard University Press in May, Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food (Timothy D.… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 21, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Jacob’s Folly Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLast week, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Rebecca Miller’s new novel Jacob’s Folly, “a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 13, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Slippage Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterNot only does Ben Greenman have a great cover for his newest book, The Slippage: A Novel (pubbing from Harper Perennial on… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 8, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: What We Talk About When We Talk About… Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe paperback edition of Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories will be published on March 5th… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 1, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Fun Parts Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn Sam Lipsyte’s newest collection, The Fun Parts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), he brings to life a reality-brandishing… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 22, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Girl With a Brave Heart Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOriginally published in Hebrew in Israel in 2010, The Girl With a Brave Heart: A Tale from Tehran (Rita Jahanforuz; Vali Mintzi,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 12, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Force of Things Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterPubbing next week from FSG is Alexander Stille’s literary memoir The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace, which tells the… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 6, 2013
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Stalin’s Barber Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterWhat happens when a Jewish barber leaves Albania for a better life in Stalinist Russia and becomes Stalin’s personal… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 1, 2013
