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Revision as of 17:17, 9 February 2018
Article in Themes and Reading Activities categories.
JMRL's Same Page is a community reading program to promote and discuss one book throughout March 2018 by an author featured at the [Virginia Festival of the Book http://www.vabook.org/]. JMRL invites all book lovers in Central Virginia to join this reading initiative. Read and discuss What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander and participate in programs about the book, its themes, and its author. The author will be at JMRL's Northside Library on March 22nd at 6pm, and this event will be free and open to the public.
We've selected a list of books, movies, and music in the JMRL collection that will inspire further exploration and enhance your reading. Find more resources and discussion questions for this book in []. Find information on programs, contests and more by visiting JMRL's Same Page.
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About the Author
Nathan Englander is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter. His most recent book is the novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth. In addition to this year's Same Page selection, he is the author of the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases. He was the 2012 recipient of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for What We Talk About. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post, as well as The O. Henry Prize Stories and numerous editions of The Best American Short Stories, including 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. Translated into 20 languages, Englander was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He’s been a fellow at the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and at The American Academy of Berlin. In 2012, along with the publication of his new collection, Englander's play The Twenty-Seventh Man premiered at The Public Theater, and his translation New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) was published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock on the Door, published by FSG.
Read Englander's biography on his webpage.
Read an article by the author "What Jewish Children Learned from Charlottesville" from the NY Times
Listen to CBC Radio Interview with Nathan Englander
Read NPR's interview with Nathan Englander about his new novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth.
Works by Nathan Englander
Related Reading - Fiction
This list of adult fiction related reading includes short story masters, and themes of Jewish-American, Israel and trusting neighbors.
- F Carver, Raymond
- What We Talk about when We Talk about Love: Stories by Raymond Carver
- Short stories that feature a pantheon of losers, peripheral people, and men and women without education, insight, or prospects who, ironically, are too unimaginative to ever give up.
- Auslander,Shalom
- Grossman, David
- McBride, James
- Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Yoon, Paul
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Modan, Rutu
- Horn, Dara
- A Mother in Roman Jerusalem makes a spiritual bargain to save her dying infant's life- She then lives for 2,000 years. Includes "historical detail (of Jewish history) and down to earth humor" and "thoughtful meditation on the meaning of life."
- Nevo, Eshkol
- Reviewed in NYT, indicates many similar themes (parenthood neighbors, humor & cutting commentary together), in a modern Israeli context.
- Namdar, Ruby
- Andrew P. Cohen, a successful NYU professor of comparative culture, is suddenly plagued with strange and inexplicable visions of an ancient religious ritual. As his superficially perfect world begins to unravel, he is forced to question his beliefs. Interspersed throughout the novel are pages from an ancient (pseudo) Talmudic text, harking back to the golden age of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Hidden in this frenzied, semi-opaque other narrative lies the mysterious key to understanding the drama of Andrew's life.
Related Reading - Nonfiction
- 92 Angelou, Maya
- MOM & ME & MOM
- This focus on the larger-than-life mother of Maya Angelou, and the relationship they shared, highlights the complicated relationship between mother and daughter.
- 92 Frank, Anne
- Winner, Lauren F.
- GN92 Kurzweil, Amy
- GN956.94 Glidden, Sarah
- 92 Feldman, Deborah
- 92 Feldman, Deborah
- GN956.94 Sacco, Joe
- Waldman, Ayelet and Chabon, Michael
- Manhattan, JCC
- Ottolenghi, Yotam
- Nathan, Joan
- Finkel, Evgeny
- 92 Mirvis, Tova
- Dauber, Jeremy
- Corporon, Yvette Manessis
- Gruen, Judy
- Petrowskaja, Katja
- (1/2018) A woman traces family members in eastern Europe, meditations on how history affects a family, how to tell stories when you don't know what happened; family members went underground or were killed by Nazis.
- Ripp, Victor
- In addition to Holocaust remembrance, this one is interesting because it talks about how public memorials/monuments can be made political- relation to local statue talks? (12/2017)
- Murad, Nadia
- The NYTBR headlines their review of this "replaying the Holocaust in the Middle East" -it tells the story of a woman escaping capture by IS agents in Iraq with the help of a Sunni man, whose life and family then become targets- plays directly into the question of how far someone will go to help hide/rescue someone else- seems like it would make for very good, timely discussion
- Rees, Laurence
Movies and Music
Movies and music with themes of Contemporary Israel, Jewish Americans, anti-semitism, trusting neighbors, Holocaust, bullies, family stories, self-defense/bullies.
Music
- CD Jewish
Movies
- DVD Big
- DVD Everything
- DVD Zookeeper's
- DVD Schindler's
- DVD Munich
- DVD Karate
- DVD Wedding
- DVD Sarah's
- DVD Birdman
- Band's
- DVD Campfire
Books for Teens
TEEN READ SELECTION: [insert various teen titles here]
RELATED READS:
Fiction
- YA Arnold, David
- MOSQUITOLAND
- When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane
- YA Hesse
- YA Lanagan
- YA Nye
- J McKay
Nonfiction
- 92 Barakat
- 92 Barakat
956.04 Hampton
Books for Youth
CHILDREN'S SELECTION: [Insert children's titles here]
- JP 306.85 Hoffman, Mary
- THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF KINDNESS
- This treasury of stories features diverse families and how they live together.
Fiction
- J Frank
- JP Simon
- J Cerrito
- JP Elvgren
- JP Kushner
J Dauvillier
- J Deutsch
- J Flying
- J Fleming
- J Wiviott
Nonfiction
- The Grand Mosque of Paris: a Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust by Karen Gray Ruelle
