Archive for September, 2010

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

By at 30 September, 2010, 11:00 am

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 […]

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JewishFiction.net

By at 27 September, 2010, 4:51 pm

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 Inaugural Issue of A New Journal of Jewish Fiction! September 29, 2010 http://www.jewishfiction.net Welcome to Jewish Fiction .net, a journal committed to showcasing the finest contemporary Jewish writing (either […]

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A Saying to Inspire Writers

By at 24 September, 2010, 3:17 pm

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 […]

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Her fearful Symmetry —

By at 23 September, 2010, 4:21 pm

The words come from Blake’s poem, “TheTyger” — but the title now belongs to Audre Niffenegger, for her second novel. Her first novel was the wildly successful “The Time Traveler’s Wife” — a book I own but that I confess I haven’t read. Regal literary is sponsoring a contest to promote the paperback release for […]

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Antonina Pirozhkova, Isaac Babel’s widow dies at 101

By at 23 September, 2010, 12:39 pm

This is also worth reading — and one of those cases where I wish I knew that she had been living in Florida all these years.  The obit mentions a book she wrote about Babel which sounds really worth reading, and of course her own accomplishments as one of the lead engineers responsible for Moscow’s […]

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Remarkable Obit: Eileen Nearne British WWII Spy

By at 23 September, 2010, 12:34 pm

Read this amazing Obit to the end — her heroism is incredible and the article gives a great sense of how she did what she did, and its impact on her life. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/world/europe/22nearne.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

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A Suggestion for Prez GW Bush re: his memoirs

By at 22 September, 2010, 4:59 pm

Peter Osnos in his column for the Century Foundation regarding Tony Blair’s memoirs concludes with the following suggestion, worth noting, to President George W, Bush concerning his upcoming tome: One final note: Blair used the celebrated American lawyer agent Bob Barnett to negotiate the multi-million book contracts that were undoubtedly among the largest ever for […]

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Wiesenthal considered

By at 3 September, 2010, 11:14 am

Tom Segev’s “Simon WIesenthal” The life and Legends” (Doubleday) has just been published and is getting some interesting response. A positive and stirring review from Dwight Garner in the New York Times, “The Man Who Refused to Forget,” and a more critical by equally passionate one by Ron Rosenbaum, “Self made Golem” at Tablet, the […]

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