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Rumpus Book ClubAugust 27th, 2010
Susan Cohen: The Last Book I Loved, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
If you couldn’t tell by the last name of “Cohen,” I am a Jew. And not surprisingly, I find myself with a proclivity for Jewish-American fiction. Maybe it’s because of my religious (perhaps cultural is a better term) background or the fact that I took a Jewish-American fiction class in college. Who knows. I also dig history, that of the Russian variety to be more precise, and wrote my final undergraduate research paper on the influence of Russian culture on the native tribes of Alaska.
And apparently Michael Chabon wrote a book for me. …more
