Archive for 2012
From My Bookshelf: The House at Tyneford, by Natasha Solomons
My latest book review has just appeared on The Jewish Journal‘s website. Here’s how it begins:
Natasha Solomons is a British writer whose first novel, published in the United States in 2010 as “Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English,” should have received a wider readership. Inspired by the experience of the author’s grandparents, European Jews who fled Nazism for safety in England, that novel focused largely on the challenges and conflicts of assimilation. In the recently published “The House at Tyneford” (Plume, $15), Solomons returns to the Jewish refugee experience in England in the 1930s.
Read the rest here.
Jewish Theater Residency Opportunity in NYC
This sounds like a terrific opportunity:
LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y and the Jewish Plays Project are seeking five collaborative teams of theater artists for a three-week pilot residency program. Modeled on the Space residency at Mabou Mines (and to some extend ART-NY’s Creative Spaces Grant), the residency is designed to give selected artists time, space and support to create vibrant new work that extends the Jewish conversation through cutting-edge theater forms and techniques….Selected artists will also participate in the revolutionary artists’ Beit Midrash process developed at LABA, learning how ancient texts can inspire and inform their artistry.
There’s a lot to absorb on the website (scroll down) regarding eligibility and the application process, so be forewarned. But there’s NO FEE to apply. Proposals are due by 6 p.m. on March 15. Good luck!
Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat
Shabbat shalom!
Friday Find: Prompts for (and from) Poets & Writers
One of the weekly e-newsletters I most enjoy receiving comes from Poets & Writers. It’s titled “The Time Is Now,” and it features three writing prompts, one each designed for poets, fictionists, and writers of creative nonfiction. Sadly, too often I can do little more than move the email containing the newsletter to a “prompts & exercises” folder for later review–I have to get to that day job, after all!–but sometimes, even the sheer act of reading the prompts makes me feel inspired. That happened yesterday–the cnf prompt (“Five Things I Know”) really clicked for me and I’m determined to follow through on it SOON!
You can see past and present prompts on this webpage (and if you look carefully between the boxes for Poetry and CNF prompts you’ll see a link that will help you subscribe to the newsletter, too).
Enjoy, and have a great weekend. See you back here on Monday!