"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!Below you will find Michael Wex's author questionnaire he completed for the Jewish Book Council.
What’s your favorite quotation?
“Are you coming out of that bathroom sometime today?” (My father)
What’s the best single piece of advice about writing that you’ve ever gotten?
Get a big wastebasket and don’t be afraid... 
Earlier this month Wex was interviewed about How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) by David Green, editor of Haaretz newspaper's Books section. It has just been published as part of Haaretz's November books supplement. The interview is reproduced in full below.
A conversation with Michael Wex
Scholar and popularizer of Yiddish, whose latest offering draws from two millennia of Jewish tradition to serve as... 
Michael Wex at the Toronto Jewish Book Fair 2009
This week Wex is on the road again - for the final push in the Jewish Book Council tour.
If you're in Rockland County New York, Cherry Hill New Jersey, New Haven Connecticut, Rockville Maryland or Las Vegas Nevada you can come and see Wex talk live about How to Be a Mentsh and get yourself a signed copy (or three).
Ahead of his appearance in Connecticut the... 
Photo by Fernando Morales for the Globe and Mail
On the eve of the publication of How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) Sarah Hampson's interview with Michael Wex appears in the Globe and Mail.
"With his new book How to Be a Mentsh (& Not a Shmuck), Michael Wex continues to define the Yiddish language and what it means to be Jewish."
It's a nice interview which really captures Wex in conversation.
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