entries regress, chronologically, top to bottom: | Reviews of Witz: The New York Times, The Barnes & Noble Review, Library Journal, Time Out, New Statesman, The New York Observer, The New Yorker, The Forward, Review Fix, The Believer, Jewish Book World, PopMatters, The Stranger, The Millions, OutsideLeft, Times Literary Supplement, Haaretz *** A review of Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story appears in The New York Observer. A review of Gordon Lish's Collected Fictions appears in Bookforum. Four stories appear at Everyday Genius. Call It Sleek, an essay on Henry Roth, appears in the July 2010 issue of Harper's Magazine (subscription only). Three posts on Witz for the Jewish Book Council Blog: 1, 2, 3 Identical City, published by The Fanzine, has been selected by Brian Evenson and Wigleaf as one of the Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2010. With Hidden Noise (A Heaven of Others, reviewed) With Hidden Noise (Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, reviewed) A story, Cafédämmerung (or Allen in Prague, King of May, 1965), appears in The Return of Kral Majales: Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010. A story, Nine Recursive Scifi Stories, appears in Camera Obscura 1. A fragment of North Vain appears in The Harp & Altar Anthology. Puerto Del Sol Vol. 45 No. 1 (A Heaven of Others, reviewed) A review of David C. Dougherty's Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin appears in The Forward. Triple Canopy podcast with Joseph McElroy is available here. Second editions of two novels, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto and A Heaven of Others, are now available. Preparations, an excerpt from Witz, appears on Ben Marcus' website. Fantasia Impromptu, a short essay followed by selections from the diaries of Benjamin De Casseres, appears in Agriculture Reader No. 4. The Bed, an excerpt from a novella called Sent, appears in Denver Quarterly Vol. 44 No. 3 (print only). An interview with Dalkey Archive Press appears at the publisher's site. Lines of Occupation, an essay on Yitzhak Laor appearing in the January 2010 issue of Harper's Magazine, is reprinted by Powell's. Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue, an essay on the first artificial color, appears in Issue 8 of Triple Canopy. Clockwork, an essay on Jewish Time, appears in Tablet. A review of Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim, ed. Mark Cohen, appears in The Forward. A review of Imre Kertész's Union Jack appears in Tablet. To mark the third anniversary of Jakov Lind's death, Open Letter posts my introduction to his Landscape in Concrete. A review of Heimrad Bäcker's transcript appears in Tablet. A review of Gilbert Sorrentino's The Abyss of Human Illusion appears in Bookforum. Roth, P., a short post on the future of the phone book, appears at the London Review Blog. Last Man Standing, an essay on John Zorn appearing in the May 2009 issue of Harper's Magazine, is reprinted by Powell's. A review of Jean-François Revel's Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era appears in The Forward. A review of Ernst Weiss' Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer appears in Tablet. Lines of Occupation, an essay on Yitzhak Laor, appears in the January 2010 issue of Harper's Magazine (subscription only). Memories of the Fall appears in The Forward. A review of The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain appears in Tablet. A story, Identical City, appears in The Fanzine. A "Schema," Forensic Sketches of Literary Criminals, appears in The Believer (print only). A review of Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual appears in Tablet. A review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City appears in The Forward. Famous Infamous Jews appears in N+1. A story, Mark the Sun, part of the story cycle Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge), appears in The Brooklyn Rail. A review of Theodor W. Adorno's Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962 appears in The Forward. A review of Mahmoud Darwish's A River Dies of Thirst appears in Tablet. Impromptu Fantasias, an essay on the diary of Benjamin De Casseres, appears in Tablet. A review of Boris Pasternak's Safe Conduct appears in Tablet. The Literatures of the Two Easts, an essay on the literatures of Zen and Hasidism, appears in Tablet. A review of Moishe Nadir's That Is How It Is appears in Tablet. Hung Like an Obelisk, Hard as an Olympian: An alphabet of English-language literature in Paris appears in Issue #4 of New Haven Review. A review of Ghérasim Luca's The Passive Vampire appears in the Summer Books Issue of The Forward. Last Man Standing, an essay on John Zorn, appears in the May 2009 issue of Harper's Magazine (subscription only). A chapbook of three stories, Four Art Pieces Plus Two, will be published by ML Press in Fall 2009. A cycle of 12 stories, Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge), will be published by The Cupboard in Fall 2009. An essay on the literature of Coney Island appears in Tablet. New Haven Review (A Heaven of Others, reviewed) A story, Pick Me Up, appears in Agriculture Reader No. 3. An essay on Jakov Lind appears as Introduction to his Landscape in Concrete, newly published by Open Letter Books. A story, Untitled: A Review, is mentioned in The Nation. An interview at <HTMLGIANT> includes two new fictions, Virus, and My Newest Site. An essay on Jewish writers and writing of the (last) Depression appears in Tablet. A story, Slush, part of the story cycle Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge), appears in The Fanzine. North Vain appears in Harp & Altar.
Penn Statement, written for a Pennsylvania State University symposium on Jewish literature in America, 11/12/08, is available here. The Office, a five-part, five-day-long essay on the Office Writings of Franz Kafka, appears in Tablet: An appreciation of Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto from orbis quintus. A preview of Witz appears as part of the Last Line series in Esquire Magazine. A review of Jack Kerouac's and William S. Burroughs' And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks appears in Time Out - New York. An essay on Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ (or, The Kiss of Judas) appears in The Believer (available here).
An essay on the painter Soshana appears in Tablet. A review of Emmett Grogan’s Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps appears in Time Out - New York. A story commemorating the end of the W. Bush presidency, entitled Reagan, Z., appears in 3AM Magazine.
A review of Jed Perl's Antoine's Alphabet appears in Time Out - New York. The Reading Experience (A Heaven of Others, reviewed) A review of Mircea Cărtărescu's Nostalgia appears in the New Haven Review.
Purist of the Self, an extended review of Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume, five-thousand page biography of Gustav Mahler, appears in the July 2008 issue of Harper's Magazine (available here).
A Rough Guide to Tzaraat, a new essay on Scriptural skin disease, appears at Jbooks.com.
A rediscovery, from Bookslut: on Daniil Kharms. PopMatters (A Heaven of Others, reviewed) A story, Towards a New New York Protest, a Britished version of Toward a New Protest, has been published in 3:AM: London, New York, Paris, published by Social Disease here and in the UK.
An essay "On Writing A Heaven of Others" appears in the February installment of Jbooks.com. Download the original version here: JBooks_Heaven.pdf.
Brooklyn Rail (A Heaven of Others, reviewed) An interview regarding A Heaven of Others appears in the January 19th edition of The Forward. KGB LIT (Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed, reviewed) The Literary Review (Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, reviewed)
An excerpt from "Shabbos Dinner, with Letterforms," from Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed, appears in the August 15th edition of The Forward. A review of Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto appears in the August 2007 issue of The Believer.
Anecdotal Evidence (The Quorum, reviewed)
The Reading Experience (Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, reviewed)
Bookslut (Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, reviewed)
A story, On getting the sheets to stay on the bed... will appear in Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless, edited by Steven Beeber, Soft Skull Press, 2007. A story, Image for an Unfinished Essay on Franz Kafka, was published in The New-York Ghost.
A story, Last Transmission, or Man with a Robotic Ermine, appears in the anthology Text:UR - The New Book of Masks, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2006.
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