Jason Diamond

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Can’t Wait To Read An Abandoned Michael Chabon Novel

Not to sound like a goonish fanboy, but I’m more excited to read 4 chapters…

Authors In Conversation: Ben Greenman And Elif Batuman

Ben Greenman and Elif Batuman are not from the school of thought that Russian literature has to be all dark and gloomy. In this exclusive video, we sit down with the two authors.

Battle Of The Big Jewish Books: Joshua Cohen Vs. Adam Levin

Joshua Cohen reviewed Adam Levin’s “The Instructions” for the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Nothing strange about that, except Cohen wrote a really big book about Jews and so did Levin. Did things get awkward?

The Weekly Yiderati: Justin Taylor, Norris Church Mailer, Howard Jacobson, Pre-Beard Ben Greenman and More

This week in our literary roundup: Justin Taylor bids adieu to HTML GIANT, Norman Mailer’s widow talks about the wife of another dead writer, Ben Greenman: Pre-beard, the best list of “best of lists” and more

Top Five Reasons I’m Bummed Richard Blumenthal Won

Actually, this could be titled “Top 5 Reasons I’m Not Excited About 2 Jewish Senators…

Jewcy Reviews: Cut Throat Dog By Joshua Sobol

Published by Melville House, 2010 The very best crime novels sometimes ask the reader to…

Guest Post: Adam Levin, Author Of The Instructions

The chance to savor 1,000 + pages of a book that brings to mind a strange hybrid of David Foster Wallace and Philip Roth as an angsty Jewish kid in the Chicago suburbs, is one that we really suggest nobody miss out on. Adam Levin was the man who took up the challenge of writing that book, and he will be guest blogging for us over the next week.

The Smooth Soul Of An Anti-Semite

Just when you though Jimmy ‘The Rent is too Damn High’ McMillan was simply an…