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For those bewildered by the onslaught of Yiddishisms peppering Portnoy's Complaint, Associate Professor of English (and Roth Society member) Derek Parker Royal (such a goyische handle!) has posted Andrew Gordon's Glossary of Yiddish for Portnoy's Complaint. A sampling: oysgemitchet =......
Chicago's clean, well-lighted place for writers ... The suicide of Thomas Disch has been widely noted already ... Authors are treated as rock stars at a Brazilian festival ... James Bond's irreconciliable differences ... Following on the heels of her......
"He arrives after we have already eaten, but his own dinner waits while he unpeels the soggy city clothes in which he has been making the rounds of his debit all day, and changes into his swimsuit. I carry his......
NPR (which has actually bucked the trend and expanded book coverage) is the latest outlet to fall hard for the glorious Netherland ... (Speaking of Netherland, there will be no giveaway this week - we're going dark for the holiday......
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