Conversation with Nathan Englander

?Old Brooklyn? is new album of the year!

I’m going to write about this at further length at some point, but I have been listening to Andy Statman’s new double CD “Old Brooklyn” and it is a virtuoso performance - after virtuoso performance in blue grass, new grass, klezmer, blues, boogie woogie, American roots music. I was sent the CD by a publicist [...]

Elizaveta, a Dreamy New Singer

Last night I had the rare treat of hearing a new singer, Elizaveta at a private reception to mark the occasion of her just-released EP (it’s available on Itunes, and you can check out her music on youtube or spotify). Her music spans the gap between the café and the Opera, from [...]

?The Possum? from Narrative Magazine

Narrative Magazine Santa Monica, California By Tom Teicholz published June 22, 2011 When I moved to Santa Monica fifteen years ago, I accepted that I was not going to live in a city along the lines of my native New York or other urban centers I’ve known, such as London, Paris, Jerusalem, and Budapest. Nevertheless, [...]

Happy Birthday, Bob!

Bob Dylan That Hibbing, Minn., native who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman but has been known as Bob Dylan since he first started performing in New York’s Greenwich Village some 50 years ago — and who has lived in Los Angeles probably longer than anywhere else — turns 70 on May 24. Like most [...]

Germany convicts Demjanjuk, former Nazi Guard, releases him pending appeal.

The conviction of John Demjanjuk, 91, by a German court today is significant in many respects, not the least of which is that this may be one of the last Nazi war crimes trials. Demjanjuk was found guilty of having been an accessory to the murder of more than 28,000 Jewish men, women and children at [...]

My Oscar vote: Sandra Bullock and Colin Firth should host next year

After this year’s disappointing show, perhaps it’s time for two beloved stars with verve, charm, cred, and a healthy irreverence for the industry and the acting profession: Sandra Bullock and Colin Firth. Consider it….

Amazon to publish thousands of public domain works from Libraries

Amazon’s print-on-demand label CREATESPACE has made agreements with the US Library of Congress and several national libraries in Europe to publish and offer for sale thousands of public domain works. Here’s the press release: The Library of Congress Revives Public Domain Works via CreateSpace Print on-Demand and Amazon Europe Print On-Demand The Library of Congress [...]

Tony Curtis, movie star and philanthropist to Hungarian Jewish life, dies.

Tony Curtis died yesterday of cardiac arrest at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada where he had been living for the last several years. Although I will be writing a obituary appreciation of Curtis for the next issue of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, condolences goes out to his extended family and to his many [...]

JewishFiction.net

From Nora Gold who is launching a new online magazine this week devoted exclusively to Jewish Fiction and that has some impressive contributors. Here’s her announcement: ANNOUNCING! The [...]

A Saying to Inspire Writers

The current issue of The Paris Review has an interview with French novelist Michel Houellebecq conducted by Susannah Hunnewell, in which Houellebecq says things both interesting, comical, absurd, provocative and interesting (and some that seem plain wrong). You can read the interview in its entirety here: But why not subscribe to The Paris Review and help [...]

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