"The Gorgeous George of Canadian literature" – Michael Wex
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... 
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.
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Random House, as part of their marketing for The Frumkiss Family Business, asked Wex twenty questions. These are the results.
1. How would you summarize your book in one sentence?
A comic look at what it means to be a Jew--or anything else--today.
2. How long did it take you to write this book?
Slightly over a year.
3. Where is your favorite place to write?
At the kitchen table.
4. How... 
Here's an interview Wex did following the publication of How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck).
In it he talks to Rebecca Brighton about how not to be a shmuck and how Yiddish language informs Jewish... 
Al Roker knows more Yiddish than you'd guess
In December 2005 Wex appeared on the Today Show with Al Roker.
Al starts by talking to regular Joes in the Carnegie Deli to find out how much Yiddish they know.
He then interviews Wex about why he wrote Born to Kvetch. Wex explains how kvetching can be cathartic, the true meaning of kvetch, how Yiddish went mainstream and the definition of shlemiel.
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