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    Library of Congress Cybercast is finally up

    Thursday, May 29th, 2008

    A bit delayed, but my first talk from my book tour is finally up. It was actually, looking back, a fantastic event to kick off my book tour. About 150 people in the middle of the day (almost all of whom I didn’t know). That and the Politics and Prose event, also ~150 people, [...]

    Auditioning for the Jews, who love Chinese Food (and Books)

    Thursday, May 29th, 2008

    So I recently went to Los Angeles for a two-minute audition held by the Jewish Book Council, which coordinates the Jewish Book Network of some 100 Jewish book fairs and events around the country.
    It is a combination of speed dating and the gong show or “JDate and a camel auction“, as Rachel Donadio [...]