books

Michael (Teichholz) Sherwood’s Memoir

Michael Sherwood, a relative of mine (my father’s cousin, or second cousin)has written his memoir.

You can view a preview of the book athttp://www.lulu.com/content/1999042

You can order the book here <http://www.lulu.com/content/1999042> : Thecost is $20.62 plus shipping.

Here is the description of the book:

Michael Sherwood was born Meyer (Misha) Teichholz in Tarnopol, Poland in 1923. He escaped from [...]

Michael (Teichholz) Sherwood’s Memoir

Michael Sherwood, a relative of mine (my father’s cousin, or second cousin)has written his memoir.

You can view a preview of the book athttp://www.lulu.com/content/1999042

You can order the book here <http://www.lulu.com/content/1999042> : Thecost is $20.62 plus shipping.

Here is the description of the book:

Michael Sherwood was born Meyer (Misha) Teichholz in Tarnopol, Poland in 1923. He escaped from [...]

vacation reading part two

Another book I read on my vacation is Chess Story by Stefan Zweig which has been recently republished in a new edition by New York Review of Book Classics.
Chess Story is a novella by Zweig and the last thing he wrote before committing suicide with his wife in Brazil in 1940.
Zweig is the Austrian writer [...]

My vacation reading - part one: Price

As for my vacation reading,,,,
I finally finished Richard Price’s “Lush Life.” I’ve been hyping the book and excited to read it, and I will say that in many ways it lives up to my expectations. BUT — you knew  a BUT was coming.
First the good: Price is unsurpassed in his ability to write and move [...]

ROSEN IN THE JJ, and at ALOUD, TUES APRIL 1, 7PM

One of my favorite people in one of my favorite publications!
Jonathan Rosen has a captivating essay about the Jewish dimension of birdwatching, as related to his new non-fiction work “The Life of the Skies” (FSG) in the current issue of The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles (which as you may know prints the Tommywood column [...]

Fact vs Fiction

There’s a post by Bob Harris on Paper Cuts, the New York Times’ Blog about books, about fact vs fiction, a topic that’s gained currency in light of all the recent faked memoris. Harris  turns to author Kathryn Harrison to discuss a similar set of facts that appears in both a work of her fiction [...]

TITLEPAGE

Titlepage.TV, thes website “for people who love books” is up. This is a Daniel Menaker hoted American version of “Apostrophes.”  The first installment features Richard Price, Susan Choi, Colin Harrison and Charles Bock.
Whenever anyone, including me, wonders why we don’t have an American version of the famous French TV show where writers come together and [...]

Good & Bad, Real & Fake, Cain & Abel, Jacob & Esau

Lot to discuss:
First the Good: Richard Price’s new novel, “Lush Life” got a rave review From Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. How’d you like to wake uo to this line:

“No one writes better dialogue than Richard Price — not Elmore Leonard, not David Mamet, not even David Chase.

Or how about this?

In [...]

MICHAEL POLLAN, ALOUD at the LA Central Public Library

    As I was checking in to the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley with my family this weekend, I saw a familiar face sitting in the lobby — Michael Pollan, the now well known author of such books as “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.”    I haven’t seen Michael in several years (I still think of him as “Mike [...]

The Stack

At The Sunday New York Times –  seems like late January is NEW NOVELIST MONTH at the NYT, (and at publishing houses for that matter) what with the recent feature on Jim Collins’ “Beginner’s Greek”, and this Sunday’s Book review of  Tod Wodlicka’s “All Shall Be Well,” and the Charles McGrath article in the Sunday [...]