"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!Passover Recipes - what's the big deal?
If you're anything like Mrs. Wex and the yearly search in the kosher-for-passover aisle of your local supermarket for anything even vaguely edible makes you want to lie down and beat your tiny fists against the floor, trust me - you are not alone. Over the next fourteen weeks before... Read more here
Proving once again the value of a single-city tour, Uptown Magazine in Winnipeg has voted The Frumkiss Family Business one of its top novels of the year.
At the beginning of December Quentin Mills-Fenn wrote a great review of Frumkiss and has followed up today by including the book as one of his favourite novels of 2010.
You can read the article in its entirety here - below is an extract that specifically... Read more here
Wex has done several book tours with the Jewish Book Council and all this week he will be blogging for them.
Find out how The Frumkiss Family Business was born and what it's really like to be a Jewish writer and Yiddish expert.
You can read the first entry entitled Birth of a Family Business here.
Make sure to check in to the Jewish Book Council's website every day this week for another installment.
Happy... Read more here
Mike Regenstreif presents a considered and very favourable review of The Frumkiss Family Business in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.
Imagine suddenly finding out that a defining aspect of your identity was not what you thought it was all your life – that you weren’t really who or what you thought you were. That’s what happens to members of the Frumkiss clan in Michael Wex’s very funny comic novel about... Read more here
I don't know what it is about Winnipeg, but they sure do love The Frumkiss Family Business.
Not that I'm complaining, you understand - we're thrilled!
Uptown, Winnipeg's online resource for the arts, entertainment and news, has produced a carefully considered, well-written and (all-importantly) overwhelmingly positive review of the book. It was written by Quentin Mills-Fenn and published today:
The... Read more here
