Everyman and The Longevity Economy
Interesting story on Roth and aging: https://designobserver.com/feature/everyman-and-the-longevity-economy-designing-a-new-narrative-for-old-age/39731#
CFP for MLA 2019
Portnoy’s Complaint at 50 Forum: LLC Jewish American
Roundtable on legacies, afterlives, reassessments, futures of Roth’s seminal novel 50 years on. Questions of canon, genre, pedagogy, perspective. After #metoo, after “post-race,” after Roth. Proposals/abstracts by 5 March 2018; Maeera Shreiber (m.shreiber@utah.edu).


Siegel McDaniel Prize Winner Announced
Congratulations to the winner of this year's Siegel McDaniel Prize, Aaron Kreuter, who won for his essay, "Against 'Jewish Totalism': Operation Shylock's Missing Chapter." Aaron is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at York University, Toronto, Canada. His work explores Jewish North American fiction that takes Israel/Palestine as its subject matter. He is the author of the poetry collection Arguments for Lawn Chairs(Guernica Editions, 2016) and the forthcoming short stor