We are having another edition of the 804 lit salon on Saturday night at 7p. We will have readings from Sonal Kohli , Lena Crown , Aaron Hamburger 🇺🇦 , Ife O Olatona, and Timothy DeLizza . As always, feel free to DM if you’d like more details.

An amazing night presenting Hotel Cuba in Fort Lauderdale. Several Jewish Cubans in the audience. One of them has ancestors from the same shtetl in Belarus where my grandmother came from, and his family also immigrated to Cuba, just as she did! What a coincidence!

Read these two wonderful historical novels recently! Featuring Jewish diaspora, resilient women, family drama—and gorgeous prose, of course. Major kudos to Aaron Hamburger 🇺🇦 and Elizabeth Graver.

See you soon, SE Florida!

Thinking of Kurt Cobain, who died 30 years ago. I could not imagine that I would write about him, not just in my novel Nirvana Is Here, but also in this tribute in the WaPo: wapo.st/3vO2iLt

LJ Pemberton 📚 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Everything by Thomas Hardy--are people reading Thomas Hardy anymore? The Victim by Saul Bellow

April 8-April 11, I'm bringing HOTEL CUBA to Southeast Florida for a whirlwind tour with seven stops! You can find all the details at my website including links to register: aaronhamburger.com//events/

Excited to be with my book buddy Elizabeth Graver as we talk about her novel Kantika and my novel Hotel Cuba online/live via Mandel JCC in Cleveland. …velandjewishbookfestival.eventive.org/schedule/eliza…

Come join me for this fun online class on building characters in your stories! March 23 at 1pm ET. cobscookinstitute.org/events?e=3-23-…

My greatest joy as a teacher of writing is to see former students become highly esteemed colleagues, like Penny Guisinger, author of the new memoir SHIFT, which you should all run out and buy. And if you're in the DMV area, come see us at the Writer's Center March 6!

I had so much fun chatting virtually with the Senior Book Club at JCC Denver about Hotel Cuba!

Making guava-filled Brazilian wedding cookies for Valentine's!

Thrilled to be in conversation with Lauren Grodstein this Sunday in Annapolis! parkbooksmd.com/events/32978

Moore wins.
Moore championships.
Moore SMASH!

Sherrone Moore Named Michigan’s Head Football Coach » mgoblue.com/coachmoore

#GoBlue

A couple of spots in this really terrific class. Come join us and Tell Your Story! Maine Media mainemedia.edu/workshops/item…

Come check out this dynamic one-session course on characterization online via Iota on March 23! cobscookinstitute.org/events?e=3-23-…

Looking for your next book club read? 📚 Check out this list from Kirkus Reviews, featuring Lauren Grodstein's WE MUST NOT THINK OF OURSELVES, a 'delicate, warm account of a brutal, cold time, grounded in humanity, small details, and unwavering clarity.' kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/20-…

'In terms of what surprised me [...] it’s that the people of the past were far more like we are than we might imagine.'

Aaron Hamburger 🇺🇦 and Lauren Grodstein discuss their new novels, historical research, and transcendent imagination.

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Thanks to the Jewish Book Council for making Hotel Cuba their January Book Club Fiction pick! Here's a lovely review of the book by Jessie Szalay! jewishbookcouncil.org/book/hotel-cuba

I just loved doing this! Check it out... A Conversation by Aaron Hamburger and Lauren Grodstein Lauren Grodstein BOMB Magazine bombmagazine.org/articles/a-con…