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Oct.20.2010
The paperback has ben out for a few weeks now. My online sales don't look too good, but it seems to be selling at Waterstones. I'm reaping the results of dogged Web marketing: reviews
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/126684575
http://jewwishes.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/jew-...
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Oct.09.2010
“God Is Dead,” said Nietzsche. Well, maybe somewhere, but not here, as the PBS special, God in America makes abundantly clear.
I recently interviewed the chief editorial consultant to this PBS special, airing this week, Dr. Stephen Prothero. As the distinguished professor of religion at Boston...
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Oct.08.2010
A Tomato Can't Grow In The Bronx Wednesday, 06 October 2010 By Kenn Gold
A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx is a multi-generational family story set in the mid-60’s in the Bronx, NY, NY, which recently was presented at The Producers Club in New York.. The title is a take on the 1960’s novel, A...
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Oct.03.2010
The movie star Tony Curtis died this past week at 85.
Curtis occupies a special place in my mental pantheon, as the embodiment of Hollywood's shrewd and cynical rendering of cultural identity during the middle years of the last century. In the milieu I came up in, a much-loved pastime was...
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Sep.13.2010
Leaving The Bronx Share “A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx” playwright Gary Moregenstein: From city to suburbs.Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Ted Merwin
‘The longest journey in the world,” Norman Podhoretz once ruefully noted, “is the journey between Brooklyn and Manhattan.”
For the working-class...
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Sep.06.2010
Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman Of Bratslav and Franz Kafkaby Tablet MagazineRodger Kamenetz, acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus, has long been engaged in the study and practice of Jewish spirituality. And he has for many years taught a course in Prague on Franz Kafka. The more he learned about...
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Sep.03.2010
Historical novels vie with crime and romance novels for the titles of most derided and most widely read literature. They've had a bad rap ever since the 19th century, when the swashbucklers of Alexandre Dumas looked pretty wooden next to Dickens, and cartoonish in comparison to the depth of Victor...
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Sep.02.2010
On my book tours I often venture to places few others visit. There are book festivals in tiny provincial towns. Readings at bookshops in small rural villages. This week I spoke in a German town that many Germans are convinced doesn’t even exist.Bielefeld (population 330,000) is a town in North...
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Aug.19.2010
In a recent conversation captured in an article entitled "Is Desegregation Dead? Parsing the Difference Between Achievement and Demographics," Susan Eaton, research director at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, mentioned a term that was new...
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Aug.12.2010
MY FIRST PHYSICAL Part 2 MY FIRST TRIP TO WHITEHALL STREET
It's 1962 and the center is crumbling.
In Centralia, Pa. a garbage dump built over an old coal mine catches fire. The slow burning anthracite under the landfill is ignited and smolders unabated. The town is slowly consumed. The...
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