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Segal’s debut novel, ‘The Innocents,’ wins $100,000 Rohr Prize
Francesca Segal’s debut novel, “The Innocents,” won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in fiction.
Gina Nahai: Leonard’s story
Years ago, I created a class, “Writer’s Marketplace,” dedicated to the business side of writing. It was inspired by all the I-wish-I’d-known-then-what-I-know-now moments in my own career, the realization that good writers often are clueless about how to sell their work, and that writing schools are often remiss in communicating the practical aspects of the profession to their students.
Joyce fans celebrate Bloomsday in Westwood
More than 100 James Joyce enthusiasts, performance artists and Irish descendants gathered at Westwood’s Hammer Museum on June 16 to celebrate Bloomsday. Taken from the name of Leopold Bloom, the assimilated Jewish protagonist in Joyce’s monumental book, “Ulysses,” the event celebrates the life of the Irish writer and relives the events of the day the tale is set: June 16, 1904.
Author Anthony Horowitz to write new Sherlock Holmes novel
Jewish author Anthony Horowitz has been commissioned by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle to write a full-length Sherlock Holmes novel. Horowitz, author of the popular young adult series about teenage spy Alex Rider, told The Guardian Tuesday that he set about writing \”a first-rate mystery for a modern audience while remaining absolutely true to the spirit of the original.\” Horowitz said he fell in love with Sherlock Holmes stories when he was 16.\n
Books: It’s mom vs. daughter in Weiner’s latest novel
What bestselling author Jennifer Weiner remembers most about her bat mitzvah is her hair.
\”It was really unfortunate hair, really tragic — like short and feathered and awful,\” said Weiner, author of \”In Her Shoes,\” which was adapted as a 2005 film starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette.
Books: Leaving Russia behind — somewhat
When Perestroika came in 1985, anti-Jewish feeling in Russia became even more overt than it had been during the Soviet era.
Books: Pot-smoking antihero proves cathartic for her creator
Twenty-nine-year-old Dahlia Finger, the antihero of Elisa Albert\’s debut novel, \”The Book of Dahlia,\” has an inoperable brain tumor and an attitude.