"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!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... Read more here
Michael Wex and Henry Sapoznik yuck it up at KlezKamp
All three Wexes enjoy nothing better than spending Christmas in a kosher hotel in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York immersing themselves in Yiddish culture.
And now the New York Times has taken an interest.
In the feature article "No Need to Kvetch, Bubala, Yiddish Lives on in Catskills" Joseph Berger highlights the work done by founder Henry... Read more here
Israel's is a classy Judaica outfit with two stores in Toronto - one just up the road from us on Eglinton and one in Thornhill.
They have always been supportive of Michael's work and we were delighted when good old Google alerts picked up this review of The Frumkiss Family Business.
"If you haven’t already started reading Michael Wex’s Yiddish-inflected books, “The Frumkiss Family Business” is a... Read more here
Recently Wex was interviewed by Emily Landau for the Arty Semite blog in The Forward. These are the results.
Michael Wex is best known for his acerbic, authoritative books on Yiddish language and culture, but in this fall’s The Frumkiss Family Business he has turned his attention to fiction. The sprawling novel is a farcical family saga, following three generations of a Jewish clan in Toronto’s... Read more here
At a recent visit to Indigo at Yonge and Eglinton (to look for books by an author whose reading I'd enjoyed at the International Festival of Authors) I was surprised and delighted to see that The Frumkiss Family Business was in no less than six separate displays.
I hope you'll permit a proud wife's indulgence - I surreptitiously snapped these shots on my Blackberry (Indigo get sniffy if they see you with... Read more here
We picked up this review in a Google alert.
Increasingly these days book blogs and review websites are playing a bigger part in influencing readers to pick up a book and read it. When we started this website five years ago it felt a bit, well, naff to include any nods other than those from broadsheet newspapers. Now that newspapers are in decline and the internet moves opinions (and books) at the speed of... Read more here
We are delighted to see that Frumkiss is being recommended by a complete stranger on the CBC's Canada Reads section of their website.
The CBC invites members of its virtual book club to provide reviews and recommendations for fellow visitors to the books section of their website.
It's one thing to find kind words on Amazon from friends who have read your book. It's quite another when people you don't know... Read more here
