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UPCOMING READINGS
Sunday, November 6
Congregation Neve Shalom
250 Grove Ave.
Metuchen, NJ
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REVIEWS FOR YOU ARE MY HEART
"[An] ingenious writer... You cannot read these 11 intelligent stories, taut with political and relational issues,
without being moved to think in new ways."
The Longest Chapter
"[Neugeboren] might not be as famous as some of his compeers, like Philip Roth or John Updike, but it's becoming increasingly
harder to argue that he's any less talented. Neugeboren's new short story collection serves as a convincing piece of
evidence of the author's rare talent... dazzlingly smart and deeply felt... Jay Neugeboren is music to our ears."
Kirkus Reviews
"In its explorations of faith, Brooklyn, medicine, and politics... the tone is elevated,
and the voice confident."
Publishers Weekly
"Jay Neugeboren’s You Are My Heart is an object lesson in imaginative empathy and observational
intelligence. His fiction for years now has had the courage to be quiet and careful and
comprehensively humane, but it’s in no way slight. One of his great subjects has been the damage
that even the most caring and thoughtful can inflict, and though these stories take place all over
the world, they’re at heart about the difference between the America to which we aspire and the America
in which we live."
Jim Shepard
"The stories in Jay Neugeboren's new collection are astonishingly good, each one fresh, startling,
sometimes shocking in its originality - with a complex and subtle substructure binding the whole
group together."
Madison Smartt Bell
REVIEWS FOR 1940
"Jay Neugeboren traverses the Hitlerian tightrope with all the skill and formal daring that have made him one of our most
honored writers of literary fiction and masterful nonfiction. This new book is, at once, a beautifully realized work of
imagined history, a rich and varied character study and a subtly layered novel of ideas, all wrapped in a propulsively
readable story. Neugeboren is marvelous. Part of the power of this intelligently and finely wrought novel is that...
thoughts and questions arise unforced from the story, as though from life itself."
Los Angeles Times
"Jay Neugeboren's 1940 is a taut, nuanced, beautifully written novel that captures an anxious and uncertain time in ways that a straight rendering of facts and dates could never achieve. Neugeboren casts a spell on the first page of his novel that never goes away. This memorable work of historical fiction is to be contemplated as well as savored."
Commonweal
"This tautly constructed, utterly readable book raises questions the reader must answer. Highly recommended."
Library Journal {Starred Review}
"Intelligent and absorbing... subtle and affecting."
Washington Post
"Jay Neugeboren has performed an astounding feat of literary alchemy, effortlessly blending science, history, religion, art, biography and psychiatry into a haunting tale that is at once a love story and a suspense novel."
Hadassah
"Neugeboren's first novel in 20 years presents a fictional account of an obscure historical figure in this intelligent, densely layered novel. Neugeboren's characters are nuanced and complex, especially the strong-willed Elisabeth... the great characters and the author's thoughtful examination of good and evil pack a cerebral punch."
Publishers Weekly
"Neugeboren's 1940 is clever in all the right ways and in none of the wrong ways - intricate, impeccably researched, but never pretentious, didactic, or self-indulgent. It is also never dull; though brimming with ideas, many of them disquieting, it is a highly engrossing read. We read, and re-read, 1940, though, not for these gifts, welcome as they are, but for its engagement with some of the deepest issues of our time and, in its grappling with the enigmas of the human soul, of all time. Neugeboren has started with the impropable and produced something indelible."
Midstream
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