She’s smart, she’s pretty, and she’s got a master’s degree from the London School of Economics — what more could you ask in a nice Jewish girl?
The fictionalized Twitter musings of the man who would go on to become America’s favorite Jewish mayor (sorry Bloomberg), written buy a guy who used to put together the world’s best punk magazine, is finally getting the book treatment.
The Fellowship officially begins in November 2011. Over the course of the two-year Fellowship, the artists will present their work through exhibitions, concerts, performances and public installations throughout Los Angeles. Their projects range from a film exploring the true story of a Jewish Indian Chief, to a dance about historic memory of the Holocaust, to a Yiddish Swing Cabaret entitled “Ella Fitzgeraldberg.”
Nabokov’s embrace of the Jews, Jewish non-fiction, Myla Goldberg picks out some songs, and Coco’s Nazi past in this week’s roundup of news for book dorks.
We talked to Rachel Figueroa-Levin about creating the Twitter account that everybody was paying attention to while they were busy taping up their windows, and checking the batteries in their flashlights.
The next time your significant other wants to go all the way out to bumblefuck to pick up a kitchen set with a name that sounds like something the Swedish Chef would say after a three day drinking binge, you can say, “I don’t want to go. I don’t support Nazis!”
This week in our roundup of news for folks who like books: Ben Greenman gives us some tunes to listen to as the hurricane approaches, Neal Pollack on the good weed in LA, Berlin finally returning library books, and more.
Kinky Friedman: Jewish guy who likes cigars and Rick Perry.