Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish news, primarily of the literary variety, from around the Web.
It’s always an occasion when a new issue of The Ilanot Review becomes available. The Winter 2013 issue is now online. Its theme: “Foreign Bodies.”
Another accolade for Francesca Segal’s The Innocents: the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. (Read the awards press release and my earlier impressions of the book.)
The January 2013 Jewish Book Carnival went live this week, hosted by People of the Books.
Novelist Ilan Mochari has some advice for Philip Roth’s biographer. In related news, registration for the upcoming Roth@80 conference is now open.
Finally: This is a special week for my story collection, Quiet Americans. Read all about it.
Shabbat shalom!