• Jon Stewart took some artistic liberty with the plot of A Christmas Carol in response to Fox News’ War on Christmas coverage. [Mediaite]

• Novelist Jami Attenberg—star of yesterday’s Twitter Book Club—discusses the creation of an obese literary character with playwright Samuel D. Hunter. [NYT]

• Joan Rivers has some advice for the Australian radio DJs who prank called the hospital Kate Middleton was staying in, who have been vilified after the nurse who took the call killed herself. [Mediaite]

• Why do classic Rankin-Bass Christmas animated specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman look so…Jewish? [Tablet]

• Jewcy favorite Mandy Patinkin tells Stephen Colbert it takes eight to 10 weeks to get his beard to its full glory, then schools Colbert on the roots of terrorism. Saul Berenson FTW. [Colbert Report]

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Novelist and 2010 Big Jewcy Jami Attenberg will join us and the Jewish Book Council for our third Twitter Book Club tomorrow at 1:30. She’ll be discussing her newest novel, The Middlesteins, and answering questions about Jews, food, and Jews and food.

Follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #JLit and be sure to follow @jamiattenberg and @JewishBook

Here are four easy ways to get ready:

• Check out Attenberg’s posts for the Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribes series.

• Read Adam Kirsch on Attenberg’s powerful storytelling in The Middlesteins over at Tablet.

• Take a look at Joe Winkler review of The Middlestein’s.

• Watch Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s entertaining video of Attenberg and Jeffrey Yoskowitz making pickles:

Previously: Like Jews and Books? You’ll Love Our New Twitter Book Club Partnership

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• So, this couple ended up in a Jewish-themed hotel room in Spain called ‘The Moneylenders.’ [RJ.org]

• Here’s Liev Schreiber in his role as a Williamsburg Shomrim officer in John Turturro’s new movie, Fading Gigolo. [Gothamist]

• Mel Brooks calls himself an “obsessive-compulsive moviegoer” as a kid. [Vulture]

• There’s something a little off about this Marc Jacobs ad. [The Cut]

• Is Homeland’s Claire Danes the best crier in the history of television? Hello Giggles thinks so. [Hello Giggles]

• Gefilteria founder Jeffrey Yoskowitz and novelist Jami Attenberg make some pickles. [Vol. 1]

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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

(image via Shutterstock)

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We knew that Jami Attenberg was so much more than just the “Joyce Carol Oates of Brooklyn” when we added her to our Big Jewcy list.

Last night the novelist was given an award for her real life story about her bicycle being stolen, and then the justice she got by hunting down the man who stole it via Craigslist, at the Village Voice Web Awards.

Since we’re fans of both vigilante justice and Jami Attenberg, we are going to follow up the award she got last night with our own Jewish Literary Vigilante of the Year award.  We are also going to point out that this will be the last of these awards, unless something happens where Gary Shteyngart starts wearing a cape to 92Y events and calling himself “Russian Jewish Literature Man.”

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