YIVO’s Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Awar

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 10, 2019July 10, 2019 History, Literature, Politics

Click Here to Read: YIVO’s Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Award on the YIVO website on July 9, 2019.

IPBooks Mid-Summer Sale!

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Books, Literature, Psychoanalysis

Order any book by phone and receive 20% off. Call 718-728-7416 with the books you want to order, your credit card number, and your address.

Pleasures of the Mind : Literature and Psychoanalysis with Paul Schwaber

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 7, 2019July 7, 2019 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to View: Episode 9: Pleasures of the Mind : Literature and Psychoanalysis with Paul Schwaber on the IPA Off the Couch website on July 7, 2019.

The Distance from Home at the Boston Athenaeum

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 1, 2019July 1, 2019 EVENTS, Literature

Dear Friends,

I delighted to be talking about my novel The Distance from Home at the Boston Athenaeum, a library Sue and I have long admired. It would be an additional pleasure if you could join us for the reading. As seating is limited, I will need to tell the library how many, other than Athenaeum members, will attend. Could you let me know within the week whether or not you are able to come?

With best wishes for a summer full of good weather and good times, Dan

MEMBERS’ CHOICE EVENT: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
10 ½ Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108

Join author Daniel Jacobs for a discussion of his novel, The Distance from Home. This compelling and sweeping story follows Hannah Avery, a woman Continue reading The Distance from Home at the Boston Athenaeum

POETRY MONDAY: JUNE 3, 2019

By Tamar SchwartzJune 3, 2019June 3, 2019 Literature

GARY METRAS

Please note: Our poetry editor will be on vacation for July and August and will be back in September.

At the risk of appearing Massachusetts-centric (and how could I not be, since it’s my adopted and poetry-rich state?) I must introduce another of our poets to you on this spring morning. Gary Metras, deservedly, was inaugurated as the Poet Laureate of the City of Easthampton, Massachusetts in April of last year. He is the author of Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: JUNE 3, 2019

Franz Kafka Letter to his Father

By Tamar SchwartzMay 15, 2019May 15, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Franz Kafka Letter to his Father on the Heavysideindustries website in August 2011 .

Franz Kafka, photo de passeport (publiée dans Le Siècle de Kafka isbn:9782858502523). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The return of Avraham Sutzkever

By Tamar SchwartzMay 7, 2019May 7, 2019 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The return of Avraham Sutzkever: The ‘greatest Yiddish poet who ever lived’ was a Holocaust hero who, when he came to Israel, was largely ignored by Asher Weill on the Times of Israel website on May 6, 2019.

Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2011) and Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954). Taken in the 1930s. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.