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Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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  • Nathan Englander’s story in this week’s New Yorker is behind the paywall, but anyone can read this interview with Englander about the story (“What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” the title story in Englander’s forthcoming collection); Raymond Carver; and how Englander’s efforts in playwriting and translation have influenced his fiction.
  • Weekend reading: the latest issue of JewishFiction.net.
  • Glad to see a revival of Josh Lambert’s new books column on Tablet.
  • Four fun facts about my own year in Jewish books.
  • “The Book of Life’s Canadian Correspondent Anne Dublin interviews author and filmmaker David Bezmogis about his development as a writer and his new novel The Free World.”
  • There is so much great stuff on Barbara Krasner’s “Whole Megillah” site (“the writer’s resource for Jewish-themed children’s books”) that I’m just going to send you over to the home page.
  • Israeli author Moshe Sakal was thrown off a literary panel in France a few days ago when a Palestinian poet refused to share the stage with him. Nice, n’est-ce pas? The event has received appallingly little attention–and the news is traveling slowly at that–but I’ve been able to track down some live-blogging coverage (in French.) Meantime, I’ve also found the author’s “Writing Rules,” apparently published in connection with his University of Iowa International Writers Program affiliation this fall.

    • Shabbat shalom!

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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    Shabbat shalom!

    Words of the Week: Mikhail Baryshnikov

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    I’ve always adored Mikhail Baryshnikov. But now I have an additional reason to appreciate him.

    Meeting recently with the press in Israel, where he is starring in a play (Dmitry Krymov’s stage adaptation of Nobel Laureate Ivan Bunin’s [1870 – 1953] short story, “In Paris,” performed in Russian with Hebrew subtitles), Baryshnikov gave the following answer when pressed about politics:

    “I’m not taking sides in any conflict. Art should heal and not divide. I would not give advice to any person; I don’t live in Israel and am not entitled. I deeply admire this country and love these people.”

    Bravo–and thank you–Misha.

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

    by Erika Dreifus on
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  • Fascinating research on truth and lies about the origins of the famous Leon Uris novel Exodus. (via Jewish Ideas Daily)
  • In which you’ll read about Leon Wieseltier, David Grossman…and Occupy Wall Street.
  • Interesting reaction to the recent announcements of the latest National Book Award finalists and the Man Booker Prize winner in Eric Herschthal’s “The Agony & Ecstasy of Jewish Book Awards.”
  • This week, I picked up a copy of Wayne Hoffman’s Sweet Like Sugar, which will be the focus of the next Jewish Book Council Twitter Book Club (November 8). And this week, JewishJournal.com posted a review of the novel.

    • Shabbat shalom, everyone.

    Words of the Week: Jeffrey Goldberg

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    Yes, I’m sending you to Jeffrey Goldberg once again. You could look up his initial response to the news about Gilad Shalit (my personal take: so happy for Shalit and his family; so worried for the reasons Goldberg articulates).

    But what I’m going to quote here is from another recent post:

    If the double-veto last week by Russia and China of a Security Council resolution condemning Syria isn’t enough to prove to you that the UN is a swamp of moral corruption and ostentatious hypocrisy, I’m not sure what will.

    Read “Goldblog”‘s full Bloomberg View column here.