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Sydney Taylor Book Award Celebrates Honorees with Blog Tours
From the Association of Jewish Libraries blog: “The Sydney Taylor Book Award will be celebrating and showcasing its 2010 gold and silver medalists and special Notable Book for All Ages with a Blog Tour, February 1-5, 2010! (A blog tour is like a virtual book tour. Instead of going to a library or bookstore to see an author speak, you go to a website on or after the advertised date to read an author’s interview.)” For details on books and participating blogs, click here.
JBC Announces Next Selection for Twitter Book Club
I wish I’d been able to post a bit more this past week, but I’ve been battling what appears to be the flu. One online discovery does have me feeling better: The Jewish Book Council has announced the next title for its Twitter Book Club.
The chosen book is Chris Bohjalian’s Skeletons at the Feast: A Novel. The Twitter discussion is slated for Thursday, February 25, 2010, starting at 12:30 p.m. EST. The author will be participating.
For more information about the book and the event, please visit the Jewish Book Council .
Susan Suleiman to Speak on "Irene Nemirovsky and the ‘Jewish Question’ in Interwar France"
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has announced that the 2010 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture will feature Professor Susan Rubin Suleiman, speaking on on “Irène Némirovsky and the ‘Jewish Question’ in Interwar France.” The lecture is scheduled for Thursday evening, February 4, 2010, in Washington.
Susan Rubin Suleiman (with whom I have had the privilege of studying) is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In her lecture, she will discuss the life and work of French writer Irène Némirovsky in relation to questions of Jewish identity in France before, during, and after the Holocaust.
A reception will follow the lecture. Reservations are requested.
JBC Launches "Twitter Book Club Twunch and Talk"
So far, I’ve resisted joining Twitter. But thanks to the Jewish Book Council, my resistance is breaking down.
The JBC is holding its first “Twitter Book Club Twunch and Talk” on Wednesday, January 13, from 12:30-1:00 p.m. EST (lunch time, for those of us in the office job world). The chosen book is Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You, which I began reading yesterday. The author will be joining the “twunch and talk” event.
I just may be there. And you?