Posted by Naomi Firestone
JTA (with support from the Foundation for Jewish Culture) posted an interview yesterday with 2009 Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Anya Ulinich. Enjoy: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/29/1004749/four-questions-for-anya-ulinich
And, if you missed our earlier interview with Anya, you can check it out here: http://jewishbooks.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/meet-sami-rohr-prize-finalistanya-ulinich/
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Anya Ulinich, Jewish Books, JTA, Sami Rohr Prize
Posted by Naomi Firestone
This article isn’t specifically Jewish, but I couldn’t resist sharing…Britain just launched their first book vending machine (Espresso Book Machine), offering readers the opportunity to print over 400,000 titles (many rare and out-of-print) on demand from a vending machine at a bookshop in London. The Daily Telegraph has the complete story here.
Video of the Espresso Book Machine 2.0 (Found on http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm):
To find an Espresso Book Machine near you, please visit http://www.ondemandbooks.com/our_ebm_locations.htm
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Espresso Book Machine
Posted by Naomi Firestone
The “Slouching Towards Bushwick” blog outlines recent articles examining New American Jewish Literature, specifically highlighting the earlier mentioned article “The New Yiddishists”: http://slouchingtowardsbushwick.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/jew-amer-literature-cool-or-tool/
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Jewish American Literature, Jewish Books, New Yiddishists
Posted by Naomi Firestone
Read Israeli writer Gail Hareven’s short story “The Slows” in The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/05/04/090504fi_fiction_hareven?currentPage=1
A review of Weber’s most recent title, The Confessions of Noa Weber, will be published in the Summer 2009 Jewish Book World
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: Gail Hareven, Jewish Books, The New Yorker
Posted by Naomi Firestone
The Jewish Week on Meir Shalev (Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book in Fiction for his work A Pigeon and a Boy): http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c44_a15524/The_Arts/Books.html
Categories: Jewish Books
Tagged: A Pigeon and a Boy, Jewish Books, Jewish Week, Meir Shalev
