New book, A JEWISH APPENDIX, out in '25 from @SpuytenDyvil. Biographer of Chrissie Hynde. Published @parisreview, @lareviewofbooks, many others.
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I reviewed the new Grant-Lee Phillips album ‘In the Hour of Dust’. Politics! Also, tenderness. Protest songs! Also, lullabies: popmatters.com/grant-lee-phi…
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I talked with current #guggenheim fellow Nell Zink, and explored her latest novel ‘Sister Europe’, for @LAReviewofBooks: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Writing for @LAReviewofBooks is always a pleasure; doubly so writing for @LAReviewofBooks about one of my favorite living writers (and the opportunity to talk with her at length).
"In a way, 'Sister Europe' is a dinner party recast as a sort of impromptu Debordian dérive, in which the dramatis personae lurch through their cockeyed and sometimes shared psychogeographies." @sobsey on “Sister Europe” by Nell Zink. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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@USAmbRO Greetings Chargé d’affaires Michael L. Dickerson. I’m a US writer of 🇷🇴 descent. My new book ‘A Jewish Appendix’ is about my Romanian origins, the country’s rich & complex Jewish history, & combating antisemitism. May I send it to you? If so, let me know how.
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TONIGHT! I'm reading from 'A Jewish Appendix' @FlyleafBooks in Chapel Hill. Joining me for post-reading Q&A and convo is Rabbi Hannah Bender of Judea Reform Congregation. Please come! flyleafbooks.com/event/sobse…
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New interview w/ me about 'A Jewish Appendix' by @yonatshimron. "Samuel to Saul: ‘And you shall turn into another man.' The act of writing is an act of not only invention but self-reinvention. Every work of writing recreates you in the act of doing it."
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‘A Jewish Appendix’ is launched! Here I am, yakking at the official launch reading and fête on Sunday. More events are upcoming, stay tuned! Meanwhile, you can buy the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/a-jewis…
I was interviewed & my memoir 'A Jewish Appendix' sensitively discussed by the wonderful @indyweek writer @LenaRoseGeller: indyweek.com/culture/in-poet… My book was published 4 days ago. Get a copy! spuytenduyvil.net/A-Jewish-A… #Memoir #JewishLit
I was lucky to receive such perceptive attention from a reader & writer so gifted.
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Writers dream of such generous and sensitive treatment. Thank you @LenaRoseGeller & @indyweek. My book ‘A Jewish Appendix’ is out now: spuytenduyvil.net/A-Jewish-A…
an extremely thoughtful interview by @LenaRoseGeller on @sobsey's memoir that "defies easy categorization" - on synchronicities, open doors, and the weight of history. really glad to have spent time with this! indyweek.com/culture/in-poet…
It was a *major* delight to interview (my hero(ine)) Neko Case. We discussed, among other things, her new memoir, rage, forgiveness, Dexter Romweber & so much more. For the Missouri Review: missourireview.com/interview…
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And, to complete the @LAReviewofBooks writers/Jews sequence, here is my essay about a non-Jewish writer so obsessed w/ Jews that things get, well, complicated. Me on W.G. Sebald: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
While we're at it, speaking of @LAReviewofBooks essays and Jews, here is me on James Salter, reviewing a vexing new-ish biography/study of Salter by one of his admirers -- or is that enviers? lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Also, with Kieran Culkin winning yet another award for 'A Real Pain,' check out my @LAReviewofBooks essay on the movie & my own search for Jewish roots in Eastern Europe: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
With Rain Parade's 'Emergency 3rd Rail Power Trip,' one of the greatest psychedelic pop albums ever, recently reissued, I wrote about the Paisley Underground, LA's early-80s music scene that has been surprisingly durable. For @LAReviewofBooks: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
For @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about the BAFTA-winning movie 'A Real Pain' & its resonances with my own search for Jewish roots & inheritance of epigenetic trauma: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
My memoir 'A Jewish Appendix' will be published in less than a month, and I'm already out there with it. Find out where here: sobsey.com/2025/02/17/a-jewi…
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My search for roots goes deeper in my book 'A Jewish Appendix,' out in one month from @SpuytenDyvil. Preorder it! bookshop.org/p/books/a-jewis…
"A few years ago, like the characters in 'A Real Pain,' I went to the Old Country to see where my Jewish ancestors had come from." @sobsey on "A Real Pain" and his own relationship to his Jewish roots. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Today, 'A Real Pain' won BAFTAs for Jesse Eisenberg's screenplay & Kieran Culkin's performance. I wrote about the epigenetic trauma at the film's heart, its peculiarly 'Jewish' (non-)ending, & my own search for Jewish roots, for @lareviewofbooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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I reviewed 'I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True,' the new memoir by indie rock legend Steve Wynn, founder of the Dream Syndicate. It's a book full of regrets that ends with Wynn's claim that he has no regrets (!?). For @SpectrumCulture: spectrumculture.com/2024/10/…