Aharon Appelfeld’s Blooms of Darkness, a “gripping tale of Holocaust survival,” (The Forward ) is now on sale from Schocken Books. Philip Roth calls Appelfeld “fiction’s foremost chronicler of the Holocaust,” and Poets & Writers recently named him one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Authors in the World. In his searing new novel, Appelfeld once again crafts out of the depths of unfathomable tragedy a renewal of life and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.
More >Today (3/3) is Pantheon Books founder Kurt Wolff’s birthday. In celebration, we’d like to send you a free copy of one of our spanking new March titles. Just tell us the year in which Wolff founded Pantheon for your chance to win!
Since its founding, Pantheon Books has prided itself for offering varied works by the most innovative authors on the scene. This month is no exception, and the first three people who send us the correct answer will receive a copy of The Baseball Codes by Jason Turbow; Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa’Thiong’o; or Eddie Signwriter by Adam Schwartzman. Email pantheonpublicity@randomhouse.com with your response!
More >In a White House ceremony on Thursday, February 25, President Obama honored the leaders in arts and humanities, including Nobel laureate and Schocken author Elie Wiesel, Bob Dylan, Clint Eastwood, and Frank Stella, by presenting them with the National Medal of the Arts and the National Humanities Medal. The Washington Post reports that “the president gave his own big hug” to Wiesel. Watch the video!
Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance goes on sale in paperback from Schocken Books April 13.
More >In a starred review, Kirkus raves about Aharon Appelfeld’s Blooms of Darkness: “Poignant and tender without being sentimental, the novel achieves its powerful emotive effects through simplicity and understatement—a beautiful read.” Going on sale from Schocken Books March 9.
More >David Lehman’s A FINE ROMANCE is one of four finalists for the 2009 Marfield Prize, also known as the National Award for Arts Writing. Last year’s $11,000 was co-won by Pantheon’s Michael Sragow for Victor Fleming and Knopf’s Brenda Wineapple for White Heat.
More >Music to Our Ears was the Lincoln Center American Songbook (1/27) concert of songs from David Lehman’s A Fine Romance, which was profiled and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal online, The New York Times, WNYC Soundcheck, and Time Out New York. Performers included Rufus Wainwright, Van Dyke Parks, and surprise guest Sting!
In his New York Times music review of this special concert, Stephen Holden says of David Lehman’s A Fine Romance: “A Fine Romance by David Lehman (Schocken Books, 2009) is an appreciative, scholarly study of traditional popular song that goes into considerable and enlightening detail about the intermingling of black and Jewish popular music, primarily from the first half of the 20th century.”
More >Congratulations to Schocken author Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg! The Murmuring Deep is a Finalist in the 2009 National Jewish Books Awards’s Modern Jewish Thought & Experience category.
More >Before Hanukkah is over, check out Schocken author Janna Gur’s “8 Tips for Making Latkes” on Food.AOL.com. Gur, the author of The Book of New Israeli Food (Schocken Books, 8/26/08), shares her savvy strategies about the season’s favorite fried food.
More >Schocken writers are well represented in this year’s Fifty of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World, as chosen by Poets & Writers, with shout-outs to Aharon Appelfeld, author of the forthcoming Blooms of Darkness (Schocken Books, 3/9/10), and Elie Wiesel, author of Rashi (Schocken Books, 8/11/09).
More >For his upcoming Nobel Lecture in Norway on Thursday, December 10, during which he will accept the Nobel Peace Prize, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report that President Obama has drawn inspiration from Elie Wiesel, author of Rashi (now on sale from Schocken Books, Jewish Encounters series) along with the likes of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
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