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Congratulations to Dame Hermione Lee, winner of the 2020 BIO Award

The Biographers International Organization (BIO) recently announced that Dame Hermione Lee, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Oxford, had won the 11th BIO Award. This prize is bestowed yearly by BIO to a distinguished colleague who has made a major contribution to the advancement of the art and craft of biography.

One of the leading literary scholars and critics of our time, Lee is best known for her Virginia Woolf (1996), widely considered the definitive biography of that author. The book won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.

Comfortable with literature from both sides of the Atlantic, Lee has written biographies of two American novelists, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, and also a critical study of Philip Roth. In addition, she has written a biography of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen and, most recently, of the British novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life was the winner of the 2013 James Tait Black Prize and BIO’s 2015 Plutarch Award…[READ MORE]

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CITIZEN 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper

CITIZEN 865 by the Washington Post investigative journalist Debbie Cenziper (Hachette Books; 9780316449656, $28) is the powerful, character-driven story of the search for the men of an obscure SS training camp in Trawniki, Poland who helped the SS murder 1.7 million Polish Jews. The Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a small unit in a far-flung office inside the Department of Justice, would identify more than a dozen men who were hiding in plain sight in cities and suburbs across America, including Miami, Chicago, and New York.

Cenziper interviewed many of the unheralded and heroic government historians and lawyers – including former director of the Office of Special Investigations Eli Rosenbaum and historians Peter Black and Elizabeth “Barry” White – who relentlessly pursued these so-called “Trawniki Men” and, nearly five decades after the war’s end, helped uncover the details behind the school for mass murder where they were trained, armed and empowered by the Third Reich. She juxtaposes this hunt with the story of 2 of only 200 Jews from Lublin, Poland who evaded this same killing force and settled in the United States unknowingly alongside their former captors, and whose children contributed to Cenziper’s research. It is “a story about darkness, but also about light,” Cenziper writes.

The book has received great media attention. Here are some highlights:

The Washington Post

Washington Independent Review of Books

Forward.com

The Jewish Exponent

The Times of Israel

The Jewish Book Council

Too Jewish Radio Podcast

Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb

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The New York Times recommends IN THE SHADOW OF GENIUS for the “discerning New Yorker”

The media can’t get enough of Barbara Mensch’s fascinating book, IN THE SHADOW OF GENIUS: The Brooklyn Bridge and Its Creators (Fordham University Press/Empire State Editions, hardcover; $34.95). The New York Times recommended her book as one of 9 coffee table books to give to the discerning New Yorker, and her book was also featured in the Washington Post, The Eye of Photography, and the Bowery Boys blog. In addition, Barbara has been interviewed by NPR stations across the country, and she has given talks at bookstores, museums and more. Check out the full roster of reviews, features, and speaking engagements below:

LITERARY SOIREE — review

SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM (New York City) — Talk & signing on 10/29/1L

ALLIANCE FOR DOWNTOWN — book mention

EYE OF PHOTOGRAPHY — feature story

PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS — Featured as “Photo of the Day” on 10/25/18

TRIBECA TRIBUNE — Feature ran on 10/24/18

WBAI-FM/Lenny Lopate At Large (New York) — Live interview on 11/26/18

BROOKLYN EAGLE — Feature ran on 11/13/18

THE NEW YORK TIMES — 9 Gift Books for the Discerning New Yorker

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — Booksigning on 12/6/18

WNYC/All of It with Alison Stewart — Live in-studio interview on 12/7/18

PIER A — Exhibit of Barbara’s photos from the book at the pier

WFUV-FM/Cityscape — Radio interview aired on 1/23/19

WASHINGTON POST — Photo feature and interview on 12/5/18

NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM — Talk and signing on 3/5/19

BOWERY BOYS HISTORY Blog — Review ran on 1/30/19

CUNY-TV/One to One with Sheryl McCarthy — TV interview on 2/18/19

DOWNTOWN MAGAZINE — Photo feature

TKSEAPORT MUSEUM — Talk & signing on 4/11/19

ROEBLING MUSEUM — Talk & signing on 5/11/19

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Al Schmitt On The Record: The Magic Behind the Music

Foreword by Paul McCartney

Do you ever wonder what goes into the creation of some of the best music ever recorded? AL SCHMITT ON THE RECORD: THE MAGIC BEHIND THE MUSIC (Hal Leonard Books) is the remarkable account of one of the most respected music engineers in the business.

A thorough and compelling account of life in and around the recording studio, AL SCHMITT ON THE RECORD offers an unprecedented window into some of popular music’s most seminal moments as told from Al’s unique perspective as “the man behind the glass.” This compelling memoir also shares some of the tricks, techniques, and tactics that have set Schmitt apart, from his approach to microphones, effects, and processors to setup diagrams from lauded recording sessions and, perhaps most importantly, his methods for catering to an artist’s vision and preferences. The resulting text is a must-read for audio pros and music fans alike.

Here is some of the great coverage this memoir has received:

The Entertainment Report – one of 2018’s best biographies

Focus TV’s On the Note – interview

SiriusXM’s The Diner with Lou Simon – interview

MIX Online – review

New York Journal of Books – review

The Inner Circle Podcast – interview/

Billboard – interview

SiriusXM’s Debatable – interview

CNET– review

SiriusXM’s Fab Forum on The Beatles Chanel – interview

Music Repo – included in roundup

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My Mother’s Son by David Hirshberg

FigTree Books LLC, publisher of the best literature of the American Jewish experience, has published My Mother’s Son, a debut novel by David Hirshberg.

The story is told by a radio raconteur revisiting his past in post-World War II Boston, the playground and battleground for two brothers whose lives are transformed by discoveries they never could have imagined. From the opening line of the book, “When you’re a kid, they don’t always tell you the truth,” the stage is set for this riveting coming-of-age story that plays out against the backdrop of the Korean War, the aftermath of the Holocaust, the polio epidemic, the relocation of a baseball team, and the shenanigans of politicians and businessmen. Hirshberg deftly weaves together events, characters, and clues and creates a rich tapestry of betrayal, persecution, death,loyalty, and unconditional love that resonates with today’s America.

My Mother’s Son has received impressive accolades, including:

Gold Medal, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards, RegionalFiction
Winner, 2018 National Indie Excellence Awards, Best RegionalFiction,
Winner, two New York City Big Book Awards:Historical Fiction and Debut Fiction.

It has also received strong review coverage including a starred review in both Booklist and Library Journal and:

The Jewish Book Council

The Jewish Advocate (Boston)

The Washington Jewish Week

The Reporter Group

Too Jewish Radio Podcast

Congratulations to Dame Hermione Lee, winner of the 2020 BIO Award

CITIZEN 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper

The New York Times recommends IN THE SHADOW OF GENIUS for the “discerning New Yorker”

Al Schmitt On The Record: The Magic Behind the Music

My Mother’s Son by David Hirshberg

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