"I don't want a niche – I want an empire!" – Michael Wex, Globe and Mail
Now it's official.
Just about anywhere you turn these days, you're likely to run into a shmuck. According to an article that appeared today on Wireless Flash - FlashNews, the word shmuck can be translated as a "totally clueless, egotistical douchebag”.
In order to combat this epidemic of shmuckishness, this alarming rise in the numbers of people brought up to believe that getting what they want is all... Read more here
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.
Read... Read more here
Wex will be appearing at the new McNally Robinson store in Toronto on Monday 26th October 2009.
Knopf Canada are doing a great job getting him into stores across Canada, organizing a book launch in conjunction with Pages book store and setting up radio and newspaper interviews.
If you live in Toronto and can get to the recently opened McNally Robinson book store at Don Mills and Lawrence for 7pm on Monday... Read more here
Please note that this competition is only open to Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) - sorry!
Random House, the publishers of the Canadian version of How to Be a Mentsh are running a competition through Experience Toronto - if you're a Canadian resident (excluding Quebec) you could win one of two copies of Wex's new book, out next week.
The competition is open until October 6th, so enter now. If you... Read more here
Wex has just been confirmed for the Toronto Jewish Book Fair.
At 8pm on Thursday 29th October he will be appearing at the Lipa Green Centre for Jewish Community Services, 4600 Bathurst Street in Toronto to give a lecture on his new book How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) which is published next week. There will also be a book signing after the event.
Make sure you check out our events page to see where... Read more here
Michael Wex onstage at Carnegie Hall. Photos with the kind permission of Arnie Goodman.
In June Wex was lucky enough to be invited to perform at Theodore Bikel's 85th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall.
Needless to say he was thrilled - Theo and Wex have been friends ever since Theo came to a lecture Wex gaveat UCLA, after which they taught together at Klezkanada.
This was the second time Wex appeared... Read more here
