Emerging Writers/Contemporary Literary Landscapes: Fiction

Join us for the inaugural program in our new series on contemporary American Jewish writers, highlighting the work of both fiction and non-fiction authors in the long tradition of American Jewish literature. Nadia Kalman (The Cosmopolitans), Austin Ratner (In the Land of the Living and The Jump Artist), Francesca Segal (The Innocents) and Adam Wilson (Flatscreen) will offer their thoughts on the writing process, contemporary literary landscapes, and how their published works intersect with Jewish themes. Introduced by Josh Lambert, contributing editor at Tablet Magazine, Academic Director of the National Yiddish Book Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Moderated by Ruth Andrew Ellenson, journalist and winner of the National Jewish Book Award for The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt.

From INSIDE NEW YORK - Frozen yogurt (colloquially called “froyo”) is quickly becoming akin to coffee through the prominence it occupies in the diets of urban dwellers, especially in summer months. Unsurprisingly, competition between froyo brands is fierce to attain a status parallel to the one Starbucks holds for coffee. Several members of the Inside New York staff sampled a recent entrant into such competition — Flavaboom (600 Sixth Ave., 212-414-0100), which opened last May in Chelsea... Read the full review at Inside New York.