The Schmooze

Out and About: True Grit’s Oscar Chances; Bullet-Stopping Books

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By Ezra Glinter January 6, 2011

Jewcy talks to novelist Myla Goldberg.
At Tablet, Leil Leibovitz eulogizes Israeli comic actor Yosef Shiloach.

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The New York Times Carpetbagger blog talks to the Coen “Boys” about “True Grit” and the Oscars.
Adam Kirsch reviews a new biography of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky.

Is Hebrew being threatened by too much translation?
Visit Khan Sharonim, a first-century stop along the Nabatean spice route.
And Joshua Cohen’s novel “Witz” (reviewed in the Forward here) is so big it can stop a bullet (kind of):

Ezra Glinter is the critic-at-large of the Forward.

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