Category Archives: Jewish literature
Yesterday’s Men
This past week I finished Gerard Jones’s Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. As I had blogged last week, I’ve had this book for several years, but I had just not gotten around to reading … Continue reading
Thane Rosenbaum Is Back
The other week, as I was reading Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy and posted my comments on this blog, a good friend of mine jokingly commented on Facebook, “Does it feel strange to read a book that doesn’t have pictures in it?” (I … Continue reading
Without Feathers
I’ve just finished reading Shalom Auslander’s first novel, Hope: A Tragedy. I liked this book a lot, especially Auslander’s unique sense of humor, which is in many ways a no-holds-barred attempt to find humor regardless of any “sacred” context. The context, … Continue reading
Abandon All Hope
Last month I began Shalom Auslander’s new novel, Hope: A Tragedy. However, I put the book aside for a few weeks and then forgot what I had read. So this weekend I started the novel over, and I’m glad I … Continue reading
Russian Émigré Short-Story Cycles
As I have mentioned in a couple of previous posts, I’m in the process of working on an essay concerning examples of the short-story cycle in recent Jewish Russian émigré narrative. I’ve done a bit of work on the short-story cycle … Continue reading
A Little of This, a Little of That
My reading has been varied these past several weeks…then again, that’s nothing new. However, in some ways I’ve slowed down a bit, not reading as much as I usually do or as I would like. And also as usual, I’ve … Continue reading
Back to the Russians
Last year I began work on an essay regarding recent Jewish Russian émigré writing, focusing specifically on the short-story cycle form. I was particularly interested in Ellen Litman’s The Last Chicken in America and David Bezmozgis’s Natasha and Other Stories, since both … Continue reading
Publicity
I recently received through the mail the latest issue of Midstream: A Quarterly Jewish Review, which I get due to the fact that I’m editor of Philip Roth Studies. As I was thumbing through this issue, I chanced upon an … Continue reading