Kalooki Nights

Since November first I've busied myself with writing a largely self-indulgent 'novel' in order to 'win' the National Novel Writing Month thing. Winning is just writing fifty thousand words, no one checks to see if those words mean anything when strung together nor does anyone read the words and see......more

Kalooki Nights In 2007, I received this book as a birthday gift from a sweet friend and colleague who knew I loved to read. I didn't like the book but still remember and am grateful for her thoughtfulness. "Kalooki Nights" by the English novelist Howard Jacobson tells a story of an English Jewish comm......more

Kalooki Nights is the funniest Holocaust themed book I've ever read. I started out with four stars and the more I thought, the more I became convinced that this is an almost perfect book that will stay with me forever. Jacobson, the self-described love child of Jane Austen and Philip Roth, brings hi......more