News and commentary posted in the Author Interviews section of Jewish Literary Review.
October 17, 2011
The annual books issue of 614: the HBI ezine is out now and this year it features conversations with five Jewish fiction authors. First there’s Alyson Richman who wrote The Lost Wife, a novel about a couple who are reunited … Continue reading
April 11, 2011
About five years ago, Mitchell James Kaplan had been working as screenwriter and script consultant in Hollywood. His real ambition, however, was to write a novel. And so, after receiving the blessing of his wife and two children, Kaplan exited … Continue reading
January 3, 2011
Bryna Kranzler is the author of an intriguing new book called The Accidental Anarchist. It tells the incredible story of her grandfather, Jacob Marateck, who had been an Orthodox Jew in Russia during the early 1900s. He served in the … Continue reading
December 7, 2010
David Grossman is an Israeli writer whose latest novel, To the End of the Land, is receiving rave reviews. The book explores the effects of war on an individual family and Israelis from all different political stripes have embraced it … Continue reading
October 28, 2010
If you’ve got a few hours to spare in order to get lost online, you could do worse than to wander around in The Paris Review’s newly public Interviews section. The first issue under the new editor, Lorin Stein, just … Continue reading
October 11, 2010
The Guardian has been running a ‘book club’ series on Howard Jacobson’s Kalooki Nights and in a recent installment the author writes about memory and the Holocaust, asking the question of whether the commandment to ‘Never Forget’ may lead to … Continue reading
October 6, 2010
At least, that’s what Jewcy calls him. The online Jewish culture pub recently posted an interview with Lev Grossman, the novelist and TIME magazine writer who penned the August 23 cover story about Jonathan Franzen. In the piece, the interviewer, … Continue reading
September 28, 2010
The annual books issue of 614: the HBI ezine is out now and it features conversations with five Jewish women authors who’ve penned unique nonfiction offerings. First, there’s Dr. Erica Brown, who wrote Confronting Scandal: How Jews Can Respond When … Continue reading
February 10, 2010
I became a big fan of Jonathan Safran Foer when I read Everything Is Illuminated. Anyone who read that book knows the author is a vegetarian. That’s to be admired. Although I am not a vegetarian, I respect those who … Continue reading
January 12, 2010
In this interview, author Jonathan Lethem discusses several aspects of writing, including how he began writing on a manual typewriter he received when he was 14. Interestingly, he says you can’t teach someone to write a novel but you can … Continue reading
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My name is Steven H. Pollak and I have written for the Baltimore Jewish Times, the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and American Jewish Life magazine.
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