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Literary Twofer Finds Characters ‘In Sickness And In Health’ And On ‘Yom Kippur In A Gym’
Nora Gold's novellas, In Sickness and In Health, and Yom Kippur in a Gym (Guernica Editions) COVER COURTESY OF NORA GOLD AND GUERNICA EDITIONS Nora Gold, the prize-winning Canadian author of novels and short stories and the founder and editor-in-chief of JewishFiction.net, has just published what Vegas aficionados call a twofer – that is two for the price of one, in this case two novellas, In Sickness and In Health, and Yom Kippur in a Gym in one volume (Guernica Editions). At first glance,… -
Everyone Is Complex: A Conversation with Assaf Gavron of "The ...
Everyone Is Complex: A Conversation with Assaf Gavr... View Original Article -
A Journey to Being: On Seth Greenland's "A Kingdom of Tender Colors"
A MAN WALKS INTO a doctor’s office. And it’s no joke. He’s 37, seemingly in robust health, happily married, with one child and another on the way. The doctor finds that his lymph glands are swollen in a way that is troubling, and a few weeks later, the man is diagnosed as having lymphoma. Cancer. In A Kingdom of Tender Colors: A Memoir of Comedy, Survival, and Love, Seth Greenland, the author of five novels — including, most recently, the well-regarded The… -
Being There (and hanging out)
Being There (and hanging out) 1978âÂÂ2000 â Tom Teich... View Original Article -
The Sorrow of Soviet Poetry: On Lev Ozerov's "Portraits Without Frames"
PORTRAITS WITHOUT FRAMES is a singular work of literary biography: a history of Soviet-era literature and culture that is also a masterful poetic sequence in its own right. In Portraits, Lev Ozerov (1914âÂÂ1996), a relatively little-known Russian literary figure, recounts his personal encounters with a who's who of 20th-century poets, authors, artists, composers, and musicians. It seems like he met everyone that was anyone, from Isaac Babel to Dmitry Shostakovich, from Boris Pasternak to the gr... View Original Article -
The Day Begins with "Evening": A Conversation with Nessa Rapoport
NESSA RAPOPORT"S NEW NOVEL, Evening, has been hailed as 'smart, darkly funny" by Publishers Weekly, and Lilith called the novel both "deeply Jewish and (wait for it) deeply Canadian," adding that "[t]here's very little feminist fiction worthy of this claim." Evening is all that, as well as being a beautifully written, masterfully crafted exploration of sisterhood, families, lovers, and love. As author Daphne Merkin says, it is "a novel that adroitly touches on everything we"ve ever wanted to ... View… -
Israel's Holden Caulfield: On Yair Assulin's "The Drive"
YAIR ASSULIN"S The Drive, an award-winning Israeli novel first published in Hebrew in 2011, has just been released in the United States by New Vessel Press, in a translation by Jessica Cohen. It is a slim book that speaks volumes about the current state of Israel.The Drive represents a new landmark in Israeli fiction. Israel has always had a strong national literature with many respected novelists, from S. Y. Agnon, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1966, to such… -
Journalist and Author Tom Teicholz Shares His Early Archives in Being There - Writer's Bone
Journalist and Author Tom Teicholz Shares His Early... View Original Article -
Tom Teicholz: Award-winning journalist, writer & producer
Tom Teicholz: Award-winning journalist, writer &Â pr... View Original Article -
Michael Chabon Reconnects
Before the crowded room of gregarious, well-read rabbis from around the country, Kahn asked Chabon to narrate his own Jewish coming-of-age. View Original Article -
Literary paprika
Jan 25, 2007 ... Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times ...... View Original Article -
Of Madeleines And Butchery: Paris Police 1900
I"ve been spending a good amount of time in Paris 1900. For most of this year, my online reading group of high school friends has been making our way through Proust (The Modern Library Revised English Edition) in this the centennial of Marcel Proust's death on November 18, 1922.In keeping with this theme, I"ve just watched Paris Police 1900, a 2021 French-made drama series whose first eight-episode season begins streaming on MHzChoice (MHzChoice.com) on September 20th (you can add MHzChoice…