ANTHOLOGY
Purim and the Place of Diaspora
By LEWIS GLINERT
Check out the Dartmouth Prof's spiel on the metaphoric meaning of Purim.

PARODY
Our People's Story Book
By LARRY YUDELSON
A Talmudic exegesis of Goodnight Moon? You bet. Get set for some premium Purim parody.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Mystery Bear Serves Up Purim Lite
By SUE EDELMAN
A book that’s as sweet, and deep, as a hunk of hamentashen.

THE ART OF THE JEWISH FICTION WRITER
The Almond-Wilson Letters
By STEVE ALMOND AND JONATHAN WILSON
Two of our funniest fiction writers discuss their latest story collections.

HISTORY
An Undeniably Interesting Case
By SETH STERN
The professor and the Holocaust denier.

FICTION
Stories Within Stores, on Heaven and Earth
By SANFORD PINSKER
The latest installment of Steve Stern's manic fabulations.

Jewish book news and reviews from around the web. A

Those Jewish women and their salons. The literary ones. >>

Screenwriting guru Robert Mckee makes a literary aliyah.>>

Here’s an investigation of Jewish science. Well, Jewish scientists. OK: Freud and Einstein, who were Jewish and scientists. They were! >>

Listen to poet Hugh Seidman blow a few choruses. >>

Oy, oy gevalt! A new tome about the Spanish Inquisition. >>

The belated memoir of Bela Zsolt. >>

Janet Maslin says Francine Prose's new book is "awash in evil glee." >>

Can We Talk?

Now there’s a program for you all kibitzing litterateurs and librarians.The American Library Association, in partnership with Nextbook, presents Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature—Identity and Imagination. Let’s Talk features a series of books, picked by a prominent scholar, as well as some big, thematic discussions. Grants are available, but be sure to get your application in by the April 1, 2005 deadline.

Zeek Out

This one caught our attention: The 92^nd Street Y in Manhattan is putting on a program called “Neurotic Visionaries and Paranoid Jews: An Evening with Zeek Magazine.” Performers will include poet Hal Sirowitz and fiction writer Aaron Hamburger. The event will take place on April 7 at the Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street. Complete details here.