Posted on May 30, 2008 by Steve Pollak
As an investigative journalist in New York City, Marie Brenner (pictured right) certainly faced a lot of tough assignments in her career. As a writer at large for Vanity Fair magazine, she penned a 1996 exposé about the tobacco industry entitled, "The Man Who Knew Too Much." The influential article was subsequently adapted into the 1999 film, "The Insider," starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino.
In her personal life, she would ultimately fall back on her investigative abilities to pick apart what had to be one of her most difficult subjects: her brother.
The result is her new book, "Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found."
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Posted on May 29, 2008 by Steve Pollak
Benjamin Taylor's new novel, "The Book of Getting Even," came out earlier this month and it has received mostly good reviews.
For those of you who are not familiar with Taylor, he won accolades from the Jewish and gay communities for his 1995 novel “Tales Out of School,” a coming-of-age tale about a prominent Jewish family living in turn-of-the-century Galveston Island.
The book was recognized by Gay Chicago magazine as one of the 10 best novels of 1995. In addition, Taylor received Hadassah Magazine's 1996 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for outstanding Jewish fiction.
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by Steve Pollak
Doubleday recently acquired world English rights to Norman Podhoretz's forthcoming book, "Why Jews Are Liberals."
Podhoretz, the prominent neoconservative thinker who served as editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine from 1960 through 1995 and continues to serve as the magazine's editor-at-large, has received renewed attention in the last year or so because of his participation in the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign (he was a foreign policy advisor) and his calls for military action against Iran. It was no coincidence that his last book, "World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism," came out on September 11, 2007.
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