"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In case you missed it in this Saturday's Globe and Mail, here's Wex's piece he wrote as part of the Globe's My Books, My Place series.
As someone who can only read in bed if he's under the covers with a flashlight, a posture too apt to be translated as, “Darling, the honeymoon's over,” I've never been much for hopping... Read more here
How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) comes out in paperback across North America next Tuesday.
To mark this, Wex was interviewed by Dan Levin at Shalom Life about what it means to be a mentsh.
"A mentsh is the kind of person you would call a stand up person,” he says. “Somebody who can be counted on to do the right thing even when no one else is looking. Even when doing the right thing might not be... Read more here
Michael Wex by Suzanne McLaren
As I mentioned on Thursday, Wex was recently interviewed by Zoomer Magazine.
Athena McKenzie-Parkin asks Michael five questions about his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business including where the original idea for the book came from, whether the main character Faktor is based on a real person and how Wex feels about being compared to Mordecai Richler and Philip Roth.
You... Read more here
We love Pop Judaica - they have the funkiest, funniest, coolest Judaica around! (They've also stocked Wex's books so we heart them big time.)
Pop Judaica describe themselves an online retailer that caters to the Jewish demographic. They are dedicated to providing you with funny Jewish gifts that will make you giggle and smile about being Jewish. They have recently teamed up with Modern Tribe and now have... Read more here
The Frumkiss Family Business gets its first recommendation in the September edition of Zoomer Magazine, Canada's boomer lifestyle magazine.
We're thrilled at this early support for the book from Moses Znaimer's publication that describes zoomers as "baby boomers with zip" and is aimed at Canadians over 45 "who embrace life with experience and confidence and who aren't afraid of change".
Michael was... Read more here
