Allison Gaudet Yarrow
By Allison Gaudet Yarrow
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The Schmooze Forward Fives: 2010 in Fiction
In this, the second annual Forward Fives selection, we celebrate the year’s cultural output with a series of deliberately eclectic choices in film, music, theater, exhibitions and books. Here we present five of the most important Jewish novels of 2010. Feel free to argue with and add to our selections in the comments. It’s been…
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Food Jews and Chinese Food: A Christmas Story
Chinese food is the most prolific cuisine on the planet, and, aside from the Chinese themselves, no one loves it more than American Jews, according to Andrew Coe, author of “Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States.” On Christmas, noodle, rice and savory dish consumption quite possibly peaks among Jews,…
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News Yid Lit: Courtney Martin
“Saving the world” is a loaded proposition. The children of the 1980s and ‘90s, who heard that phrase have come of age and are often called apathetic, self-absorbed and quietly glued to their screens. Not the case, says Courtney Martin, an editor at Feministing.com and a senior correspondent for the American Prospect Online. Her new…
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Life The Pill Is Still a Drug — Why Can’t We Question It?
Reliance on a drug, on hormones, to me, is the opposite of freedom. Which is why when I read Vanessa Grigoriadis’s New York magazine piece in which she asserts that women should wake up from the feel-good fog of the birth control pill, I found myself excited. This may be the beginning of a needed,…
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News Yid Lit: Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is having banner year. The author of the novels “The History of Love” (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006) and “Man Walks into a Room” (Anchor, 2003) was named one of the New Yorker’s 20 under 40 fiction writers and her new novel, “Great House,” came out the same month it was nominated…
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News Yid Lit: Adam Levin
In this week’s Yid Lit, debut author Adam Levin discusses his novel “The Instructions.” The story follows a 10-year-old scholar and weapons expert with a messiah complex who gets kicked out of two yeshivas then stages a coup with a band of Israelites in his secular school after his identity is questioned and he falls…
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The Schmooze Jewcy’s Return
Jewcy, the online magazine appealing to young Jews, relaunched today with a nice-looking website and some fresh content. The nonprofit cousin of JDub records maintains its robust music and books coverage, but has added sections for news, food, social justice and family and features an events calendar, which is certainly needed in the Jewish webiverse….
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News Yid Lit: Sheffer on Singer
In a special edition of this week?s Yid Lit podcast, Isaiah Sheffer, founding artistic director of New York?s Symphony Space and host of National Public Radio?s ?Selected Shorts,? reads from the newly rereleased novel by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, ?The Magician of Lublin? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Below, a transcript of the conversation…
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