For those who enjoy Philip Roth, you should read one of Jay Neugeboren’s novels. He has had two published in the last six months — The Other Side of the World (Two Dollar Radio; December 2012) and The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company (Texas Tech University Press; March 2013). He has been compared to Philip Roth (The Washington Post) and John Updike (Kirkus Reviews) and has been called, “one of our most honored writers of literary fiction” by The Los Angeles Times. Learn more about this great writer by reading a recent interview he did with The Jewish Book Council: http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/beth-kissileff-interviews-jay-neugeboren/
The Other Side of the World
Happy pub day to Jay Neugeboren! His 19th novel, The Other Side of the World, is just out today from Two Dollar Radio. Shelf-Awareness describes it as a “funny, unsettling odyssey of a young man’s escape from his difficult father and a broken friendship to an optimistic self-awareness.” Here is a link to the entire review that ran today: http://shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=152#m2934
The Other Side of Jay Neugeboren
There is a great Q&A with novelist, Jay Neugeboren, in this week’s Kirkus Reviews. Jay’s 19th novel, The Other Side of the World will be out from Two Dollar Radio on December 4th. http://www.kirkusreviews.com/blog/fiction/other-side-jay-neugeborens-world/