year-end recommendations

Book: Pick up Alfred Chester's The Exquisite Corpse, and anything else you can find by him.

Film: Abbas Kiarostami's TEN (2004), available on DVD. Make sure you also watch "10 on Ten" - a gem self-interview.

two great Hebrew writers in English

Follow these links:

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=GnessinBookReview http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=ReviewPreliminaries

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a hole in one

if you haven't seen this movie, do!
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Review in the Forward 8/4/06

Check out Joshua Cohen's review in this week's issue of the Forward - get the magazine or follow the link:
http://www.forward.com/articles/8214

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Elfriede Jelinek

Recommend you rush and get her Women as Lovers. Years and years ago read her Wonderful Wonderful Times, and, The Piano Teacher. Thanks to a friend, just now discovered her 1975 Women as Lovers. Read it!

Retelling Book Party at Skylight Room/ Night and Day restaurant/bar in Brooklyn

Great party on 6/28, great space, and this week's issue of Time Out NY - Retelling reviewed by Michael Miller - smart and intelligent review:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl://TONYWebArticles1/562/books/retelling.xml

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Village Voice

Check out article in VV on Independent Publishers -
http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0622,winter,73348,10.html

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