We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with the Jewish Book Council on their great Twitter Book Club series. We’re huge fans of the JBC (we love their Prosen People blog), and are excited to team up with them.

Here’s the deal: Every month or so, we’ll have an exciting author on Twitter with us discussing his or her new book. You can ask questions directly (we will be!) or just follow along in real-time our brand new hashtag #JLit. Check out the transcripts of some our favorite Twitter Book Clubs past: Nathan Englander, David Bezmozgis, and Dara Horn.

Tune in Tuesday, October 23, when Doreen Carvajal will be answering questions about her new book, The Forgetting River. We’ll be tweeting up a storm from 1:30-2:10 p.m., and we hope you will be too! Until then, you can find the full archive and game day rules here.

Twitter Book Club Schedule:

October 23, 1:30PM-2:10PM: Doreen Carvajal, The Forgetting River

November 20, 1:30PM-2:10PM: Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

December 12, 1:30PM-2:10PM: Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins

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In what appears to not be a joke and actually a real thing, Africa’s Mail and Guardian is reporting the existence of glasses, designed for Orthodox Jewish men, which blur women from sight. Yep, glasses that blur your vision.

From the article:

The ultra-Orthodox community’s unofficial “modesty patrols” are selling glasses with special blur-inducing stickers on their lenses.

The glasses provide clear vision for up to a few metres so as not to impede movement, but anything beyond that gets blurry – including women.

It’s not known how many have been sold. For men forced to venture outside their insular communities, hoods and shields that block peripheral vision are also being offered. The glasses are going for the “modest” price of $6.

Never mind the confusing mechanics behind eyeglasses that do the opposite of what eyeglasses are presumably supposed to do—namely, facilitate clearer sight—this seems to be more than a little dangerous. Also, $6 seems a bit steep for a pair of fake glasses, just saying.

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