Category Archives: Jewish Literature

First Time Novelist Diana Spechler Coming To Town Nov. 13

November 13, 2008: Diesel, A Book Store In Brentwood, 7:00 p.m. 225 26th Street, Santa Monica, CA Diana Spechler Diana Spechler’s Facebook Page Diana Spechler’s MySpace Page From Harper Collins: Bits and Ash were children when the kidnapping of their … Continue reading

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‘The Shiksa Syndrome’

Via email, I interviewed author Laurie Graff via email about her new novel Shiksa Syndrome. * How did you choose this topic? Shiksa Syndrome’s been around a long time. I actually came up with it when I was acting and … Continue reading

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XXX-Communicated Shunned Again

Here’s the press release from Ari Goldman‘s wife Shira Dicker: New York, NY. January 9, 2008 – With winners in twenty categories hailing from six countries this year, the 57th Annual National Jewish Book Awards takes on an international flavor. … Continue reading

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‘Bernard Malamud: A Writer

Lee Siegel writes in the New York Times: Malamud didn’t need to copulate his way to freedom from Mommy. As a little boy, he had saved his own mother from a suicide attempt; she spent the next two years in … Continue reading

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Shadows on the Hudson

Over the past six weeks, I’ve read a dozen books on or by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Shadows on the Hudson was the latest. I feel like Singer repeated himself: * The protagonist becomes vegetarian * Tires of the modern world … Continue reading

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