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Nice Jewish Boys Gone Wild

Sat. March 29th, 2008 2:00 PM

Fiction and memoir with Marc Estrin (The Lamentations of Julius Marantz), A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically), Adam Mansbach (The End of the Jews) and Peter Charles Melman (Landsman).


Moderator: Bella Stander

 

Location:

Village School
215 East High Street
(434)984-4404
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Featuring:

Marc Estrin is the author of The Lamentations of Julius Marantz; Insect Dreams; The Education of Arnold Hitler; Golem Song; Tsim-Tsum; and Rehearsing with Gods, an award-winning memoir of his 35 years with the Bread & Puppet Theater.

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A.J. Jacobs's latest book is The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. A senior editor at Esquire magazine and an NPR contributor, he also wrote The Know-It-All.

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Adam Mansbach, author of The End of the Jews, has also written Angry Black White Boy and Shackling Water. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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Peter Charles Melman's debut novel, Landsman, has garnered a BookSense, Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, and 2007 American Library Association Notable Book of the Year selection. He teaches at Hunter College High School in Manhattan.

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