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Notes from Around the Web

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  • While I was in Jerusalem earlier this month, I issued an Internet call for help. Basically, I wanted info on area bookstores.  Thanks to some generous advisors, I ended up at the very same bookstore profiled in Jonathan Kirsch’s terrific blog post:  Steimatzky’s at the Mamilla Mall.
  • The Jewish Book Council wants to hear from you! And you may even win free books for your time/words.
  • A new Shalom Sesame is on sale (just in time for Chanukah orders, too).
  • Book event alert! Quiet Americans and I will be appearing at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History in February!
  • Very useful post on The Whole Megillah, re: book publicity (esp. for children’s book writers, but every writer will find some advice nuggets there).
  • Mat Zucker’s “Spare Me Your Shekels” essay is a thought-provoking, if disturbing, contribution on The Nervous Breakdown.
  • Racelle Rosett’s short story, “Shomer,” made me cry. Consider yourself warned.

    • Shabbat shalom!

    Notes from Around the Web

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  • Howard Jacobson’s latest novel, The Finkler Question, was already on my tbr list. Adam Kirsch’s review only solidified my interest.
  • On a lighter note, if you’re starting to look for Chanukah gifts for the little ones, you may want to check out this list of new titles.
  • I am so excited for the next Jewish Book Council Twitter Book Club! The chosen book is Julie Orringer’s The Invisible Bridge; the author will participate; and the event will take place online on Tuesday, October 26.
  • Mazel Tov to author Max Apple on winning a Pew Fellowship (you may recall my appreciation for his collection, The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories).
  • More about David Grossman and his newly translated novel, this time from The Jewish Week.
  • Now up on The Jewish Reader: Philip Roth’s Nemesis.

    • This will be my final post for ten days or so. I’m heading to Israel tomorrow night! I don’t expect to be online much (if at all) while I’m there, but I do anticipate returning with lots of discoveries to share. Shabbat shalom, and see you when I’m back!

    Meet the Authors: Beyond Matzoh and Pogroms

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    This NYPL (Bloomingdale branch) event is slated for October 26:

    Meet the Authors: Beyond Matzoh and Pogroms

    What to do when your best friend is throwing a party of the day of your Bat Mitzvah? Can you give up being Jewish for Lent? Authors Margie Gelbwasser, Jenny Meyerhoff, Sarah Darer Littman, Nora Baskin Raleigh, & Laura Toffler-Corrie talk about Judaism in fiction: past portrayals and today’s issues. For ages 12 and up.

    More info here.
    (via the Association of Jewish Libraries)

    Notes from Around the Web (and Twitter)

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    Disturbing, but unsurprisingly good short story by Nathan Englander in the current New Yorker. (Englander’s Q&A with Cressida Leyshon piqued my interest, too.)
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    Elena Kagan, Jewish feminist.
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    Daniel Levenson reviews A Safe Haven, Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, by Allis and Ronald Radosh
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    via @JewishPub RT @KarBenPub Mazel Tov to Association of @JewishLibraries President-Elect Heidi Estrin! http://bit.ly/dpxb7B #Jewish#books
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    via @bookoflifepod A brand new blog for folks who write Jewish kidlit! Cool! http://bit.ly/aaw6pA
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    via @JewishIdeas A new book narrates the Jewish history of North Carolina http://www.jidaily.com/uXfrUCkqI/t
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    Finally, please help me choose the author photo for my forthcoming short story collection, Quiet Americans!

    Shabbat Shalom!

    Books, Books, and More Books

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    It’s going to take me awhile to really absorb Kathy Bloomfield’s amazing catalog of “books that matter” on forwords.com.

    Here’s a bit of the philosophy behind Kathy’s choices:

    “In addition to the best in Jewish children’s literature, we also look for secular books with Jewish values content. As I decide which of the many new, wonderfully illustrated and delightfully told stories I want to review for my catalog each year, I keep in mind Jewish tradition and Jewish VALUES. I then try to find those books that will convey the values appropriate to a specific age level and curriculum in the best and most effective way possible. Finally, and probably most importantly, I look for those books that will excite the imagination of the children, being taught in a way that will tie them firmly into the lesson being presented, and create for them an internal moral encyclopedia from which they can retrieve information to help them deal with life’s challenges in a Jewishly ethical way.”

    Sound good to you? Click on over to the site and download your own copy of the catalog.

    (Thanks to the Association of Jewish Libraries for the tip!)