April 16, 2009
On Tuesday, people around the world will observe Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah. To mark the occasion around these parts, I’d like to present this interview I conducted with author Charles S. Weinblatt. Mr. Weinblatt’s recent book, “Jacob’s Courage,” … Continue reading
May 14, 2008
The Spring 2008 edition of The Paris Review features a ‘lost interview‘ with the late short-story writer Leonard Michaels. While often compared to the likes of other great Jewish writers such as Grace Paley and Philip Roth, Michaels is not … Continue reading
May 13, 2008
On the advice of my Parisian uncle, I plan on reading Tatiana de Rosnay‘s novel, “Sarah’s Key.” The book has gotten a lot of buzz on the international scene in the last year and I believe St. Martin’s Press will … Continue reading
February 14, 2008
Earlier this week, the Jewish Book Council announced the winner of the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Lucette Lagnado, a former editor at the Forward and currently an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, won the prize … Continue reading
February 14, 2008
Last month, I wrote a review of Ehud Havazelet’s “Bearing the Body.” I was so intrigued by the novel that I decided to follow up with the author to ask a few questions about how he writes and about the … Continue reading
February 10, 2008
Ilan Stavans, the author of “On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language” and the editor of “The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature” and “The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories,” spoke with the New York Times last week. Here's what … Continue reading
January 22, 2008
What happens when a literary critic writes a novel? How does he react to a bad review? Hopefully, Joshua Cohen won’t find out. The literary critic for the Forward has a new novel out (his fourth work of fiction) and … Continue reading
January 14, 2008
In advance of Geraldine Brooks’ visit to Atlanta on Tuesday, my hometown paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ran a Q&A with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author as well as a review of her latest novel, “People of the Book.” This work of … Continue reading
December 28, 2007
I hate to go back-to-back with Michael Chabon postings but I just came across this YouTube video of the Jewish Journal’s senior writer, Brad A. Greenberg, interviewing him. Chabon talks about Israel, his critics and growing up as a geek. … Continue reading
September 26, 2007
Philip Roth spoke with author Hermione Lee in this week’s New Yorker (link to article unavailable). Most of the interview focused on Roth’s new novel, “Exit Ghost,” but there were references to his other books as well. The new novel … 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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