This Week: FAST COMPANY and A LIVING LENS
November 8th, 2007
Continuing our focus on the Jewish Book Fair, we talk about to two writers featured at the Fair about their new books:
David M. Gross on FAST COMPANY: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy and Alana Newhouse on A LIVING LENS: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward. Tune into the show on air or on line to win a copy of A LIVING LENS.
See below to find out how you can win a copy of A Living Lens.
FAST COMPANY is a funny, charming memoir of what happened when David M. Gross left his job as a young Manhattan corporate finance lawyer to help turn failing sport motorcycle company Ducati around for its new owners. In our conversation, we talk about the Italian preference for quality over crass materialism, the tug-of-war between family and identity for gay Italians — and very fast, very sexy motorcycles.
Also, Alana Newhouse is arts editor of the English-language edition of the venerable Jewish newspaper, The Forward. She edited A LIVING LENS, which collects photos of events and people around the world, Jewish and non-Jewish, found in the archives of the Forward from the past 100 years. She talks about this graphic historical chronicle as well as about how The Forward changed journalism in America.
Win a copy of A Living Lens! Tune in on air or online (streaming or podcast) to answer the Contest Question, then email the answer to “writersvoice at wmua.org”. We’ll send the book to the first listener to submit the winning answer.
This episode airs first on 91.1 FM WMUA on Friday, November 9.
The Jewish Book Fair series on Writer’s Voice is supported in part by a grant from the Jewish Arts & Culture Initiative of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
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