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"Through Shadows Slow" wins the national CLJA Fiction Book Award for 2020!
We are proud to announce that Abraham Boyarsky's "Through Shadows Slow" has won the national 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of fiction. Official announcement from the CLJA will come soon. Please join us for the awards ceremony to be held online this year on October 25th on the CJLA and Koschitzky Centre Youtube channels. Details to follow to soon.
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THROUGH SHADOWS SLOW by Abraham Boyarsky
Daniel is in the twilight of his life, tormented by doubts, of cuckolding, an illegitimate son, his late wife’s ‘dissolute’ nature, the horrors of war and the inanity of all human activity. A miraculous childhood survivor of the Nazi prison camps, Daniel is shipped to Canada after the war, a refugee and an orphan. Processed in Montreal and diagnosed with TB, Daniel is sent to the renowned Sainte-Agathe hospital in the Laurentian Mountains where the clear air might benefit his health. During his recovery, Daniel meets his future wife, Gilla, and must deal with memories of the war, the promises he’s made to dead relatives and how to fit the happiness and love he finds in Sainte-Agathe amidst all the horror he’s suffered. Driven by insurmountable convictions about Gilla’s infidelity, he very nearly ruins their lives. Now at the end of it all, Daniel must make a pilgrimage to Masada and memory in the hope of finding truth and redemption
176 pages | 5.5" x 8.25" | ISBN 978-1-926716-57-2 (pbk.) | US $17.99 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99
8th House Publishing seeking interns for upcoming African Literature Anthologies
8th House Publishing is seeking interns to assist with our upcoming African Literature Anthology releases. If you feel inclined to contribute, do contact us. We are particularly interested in individuals experienced in Indesign and other individuals experienced in marketing, promotion and event organization.
Charlatans and all type of hypocrite will be slayed at the door; while giants and all form of monsters are welcome.

An Anthology of East African Literature
Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, Lydia Kasese, Bigoa Chuol, Raïs Neza Boneza, Sitawa Namwalie, Betty Kituyi, Joshua Mmali, Gervaz Lushaju, Prof Laban Erapu, Billy Kahora, Sam Okoth Opondo, Troy Onyango...
xxx pages | 6" x 9' | ISBN XXXXXXXXX (pbk.) | $XXXX

An Anthology of West African Literature
XXX pages | 6" x 9' | ISBN 978-1-xxxxxxx (pbk.) | $?.??

Rolli (Charles Anderson) interiewed on New York's Grub Street
Rolli (Charles Anderson) interiewed on New York City's Grub Street. Get the full interview here: https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/05/coffeeeeee.html

Rolli on the Wall Street Journal
See Charles Anderson's (Rolli's) latest cartoons on the Wall Street Journal....

France gets "Women in Jazz"
"Largement plébiscité par la presse et les lecteurs anglophones, cet ouvrage sur les femmes et le jazz n’est pas encore disponible en français. Cependant, il se lit facilement. En France, on connaît le travail précis de la chercheuse Marie Buscatto sur le sujet. Pour la zone anglophone, qui couvre aussi bien les USA, le Canada que le Royaume-Uni (pour ce qui est des témoignages), c’est Sammy Stein qui maîtrise le champ d’étude. La journaliste et autrice y travaille depuis longtemps et sur plusieurs supports : presse, radio etc."

Rolli's "Liz" in the Saturday Evening Post
Charles Anderson (Rolli) author of Mavor's Bones, and Plum Stuff writes a short story for the Saturday Evening Post. Read it here:
See his latest series of cartoons "Pepper... and Salt" in the Wall Street Journal here.

GWforM presents Poetry At The Parkside featuring Claudia Serea, Maria Haro and more...
GWforM presents Poetry At The Parkside
SUN, FEB 23 AT 4 PM
GWforM(Great Weather for Media) presents Poetry At The Parkside
The Parkside Lounge · New York, NY, United States

Jazzwise Magazine reviews Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz - The Women, The Legends & Their Fight"
A review of Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz- The Women, The Legends & Their Fight" in this month's Jazzwise Magazine.
Jane Cornwell writes,
“Women in jazz: see them? Like, really ‘see’ them? They’re there, and working hard – and out of necessity, harder – to pursue their passion on a playing field that is still shockingly uneven… Jazz remains stubbornly anachronistic, asserts Stein in the intro to this timely book. Disagree? It’s all here, beautifully written, eloquently argued, clear-eyed in its intentions and open in its invitation to come one, come all and sort it out. Jazz is given loose definition and historical context, with an illuminating chapter on New Orleans now and then. We’re re-introduced to pioneers: Melba Liston, whose complex arrangements made Dizzy’s musos gasp. Bessie Smith, buried in an unmarked grave until female fans arranged a headstone. Hazel Scott, targeted by McCarthyites in 1947, and a singer who advised Billie Holiday to “never let them see you cry”. Interviews with today’s women in jazz document challenges faced – from the male gaze to unsisterly women – and rewards reaped. Firsthand accounts from the likes of Terri Lyne Carrington, Georgia Mancio and Claire Martin are elucidating...”
Get your copy today!

'All About Jazz' features Sammy Stein's latest book "Women in Jazz"
"All About Jazz" features "Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their Fight":
"New book celebrates the women of music, shares their journeys and gives them voice."

'After the Pause' reviews Darren C. Demaree's "Nude Male with Echo"
'After the Pause' publishes their review on Darren C. Demaree's latest collection "Nude Male with Echo":
To read Demaree is to be swept along by his frantic pen. But he is never frantic in an uncontrolled way. Only in knowing how vital it is that he, and we, repair what remains of this wrecked world.

Author Talk: In Nietzsche's Footsteps
Jonathan Cohen will be reading from his "In Nietzsche's Footsteps" today at 15:00 at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life,
Abramson Center
Jan. 9, 2020, 15:00
1425 Horsham Rd,
North Wales PA 19454,
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