Out and About: PEN Literary Awards; Schwartz’s Deli, the Musical
Today would have been George Gershwin?s 112th birthday. Image by Wiki Commons/LOC
By Ezra Glinter September 26, 2010
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How a machinist named Martin Cohen became the pre-eminent photographer of New York’s Latin music scene.
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Montreal’s Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen is set to be turned into a musical.
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Is it time to update the Hebrew alphabet for the Internet age?
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Read an interview with Allen Ginsberg collaborator and “Howl!” illustrator Eric Drooker.
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The trailer for “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” is now out.
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The Jewish Manuscript Project gives us a peek inside the creative process of poet David Lehman.
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Teruah offers an appreciation of Jeremiah Lockwood’s Nigun Project, but also has some issues with it.
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David Mamet has been honored with a PEN American Center literary award for “Master American Dramatist,” as has Michael Scammell for his biography of Arthur Koestler (reviewed in the Forward here). The $25,000 Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction went to Don DeLillo.
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In more somber news, Isaac Babel’s widow and Moscow subway designer Antonina Pirozhkova, ’50s heartthrob Eddie Fisher, and classical music critic Jacob Siskind have passed away.
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Tomorrow night is Jake Marmer’s very excellent-sounding “Jazz Talmud.”
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Today is the 200th yarhtzeit of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, and one community is celebrating with — what else? — a “Nachmanifest!”
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Today is (or would have been) George Gershwin’s 112th birthday, which is as good a reason as any for a little “Fantasia”:
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