"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!Last month Wex was in New York to take part in a panel discussion about the nature of Jewish humour.
The Art of the Kvetch: Jewish Humor as Secularism was presented by the Jewish Studies department at Eugene Lang College, part of The New School for Liberal Arts. The other participants were Noah Isenberg, author of Between... 
Back in February Wex was interviewed by Doris Epstein on Mensch Life about his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business.
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Michael Wex appears on Mensch Life from Marilla Wex on... 
On Wednesday of this week Wex will be appearing at Burlington Central Library.
Please join him at 7pm when he will be giving a reading three extracts from his latest novel The Frumkiss Family Business. After the reading there will be a question and answer session.
If you've been kind enough to actually buy your own copy of The Frumkiss Family Business please bring it with you and Michael more than happy to... 
Tonight we are going to a dinner for the opening of the International Festival of Authors.
Michael will be appearing twice at the IFOA. This Sunday October 24th he will be giving a reading at Lakeside Terrace at 1pm with fellow authors Trevor Cole, Dan Rhodes and Meaghan Strimas. Then on Saturday October 30th he will be participating in a round table discussion entitled "Writing Home" at the Studio Theatre... 
The Frumkiss Family Business is published next Tuesday and will have its first big outing at the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto.
Wex will be giving a lecture at the Brigantine Room at the Harbourfront Festival at 5pm on Labour Day (Monday 6th September) focussing on his new novel. The event is free and open to the general public.
There will be copies of the book available to buy from the Ashkenaz store -... 