Posted on August 28, 2007 by Steve Pollak
Publishers Weekly posted an item Monday that many fans of Jewish literature will want to take note of.
Benjamin Taylor, author of the 1995 novel, “Tales Out of School,” has sold the rights to his next novel to publishing house Steerforth.
For those of you who don’t remember Taylor, he won accolades from the Jewish and gay communities for “Tales Out of School,” a coming-of-age tale about a prominent Jewish family living in turn-of-the-century Galveston Island.
Gay Chicago magazine recognized it 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.
According to Publishers Weekly, Taylor’s new novel, “The Book of Getting Even,” is set in the 1970s and “follows the son of a New Orleans rabbi, a budding astronomer, who, on his way from youth to manhood, falls in love with a famous and beguiling family.”
Scheduled to publish in May 2008, Steerforth will reissue “Tales Out of School” in paperback at the same time.
Oh, and one more thing: Philip Roth has already given the book a blurb.