Publisher: CCLaP Publishing
Description:
What exactly does it mean to be young, Jewish and creative in 21st-century America? How do you reconcile a quiet life in the Midwest with a parallel life in Israel? And how do you fit in a five-year-old son with an interest in frilly dresses? Ohio professor and celebrated cultural essayist Kevin Haworth answers these questions and more in this, his debut full-length essay collection; and the answers are part Sloane Crosley, part Philip Roth, with a dash of Malcolm Gladwell’s intelligence and a pinch of Denis Johnson’s poetic style.
Already the winner of a pre-publication grant from the Ohio Arts Council, from a former winner of the Samuel Goldberg Prize for Jewish fiction, this will be right up the alley of those who enjoy “The Believer” and “This American Life,” a charming but darkly tinged look at circumcision, terrorist bombers, the Catskills in the ’70s, and all the other confusing things that make up the life of post-9/11 Jewish American parents and artists.
My Thoughts:
Another great offering from
CCLaP!I’m a curious girl. It’s one of the reasons why I love to read. Information please! Besides the fact that this is wonderfully written it also satisfied my WANT TO KNOW ALL THE THINGS personality.
When I find myself researching the topics brought up in a book I know it’s a winner. While reading this I whipped out my phone and started hunting for more information about the
Dreyfus Affair. Not long after that I was reading all that I could find on the
Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster.
Famous Drawings in Literary History is intelligent, moving, and humorous. An admirable collection of essays, this is a book that I highly recommend.
Around the time of my near drowning I learned how to read. I read early and often and to the exclusion of most other normal childhood activities. I spread my books all over the floor like all children do and swam from one to the other in our small Brooklyn apartment. ~Kevin Haworth
Kevin Haworth’s first novel, The Discontinuity of Small Things, was awarded the Samuel Goldberg Prize for best Jewish fiction by a writer under 40. It was also recognized as runner-up for the 2006 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His collection of non-fiction essays, Famous Drownings in Literary History, was released by CCLaP in 2012, and won Kevin a pre-publication grant from the Ohio Arts Council. A two-time resident of the Vermont Studio Center, he is also a winner of the David Dornstein Prize for Young Jewish Writers and the Permafrost Fiction Prize. His fiction and nonfiction appear in Sentence, ACM, Poetica, Permafrost, and others. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his wife, Rabbi Danielle Leshaw, and their two children, Zev and Ruthie. He teaches writing and literature at Ohio University
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