Gawker
With this apparently being Jew day on Gawker — and how, we wonder, is that different from all other nights? — it's a perfect time to mention this squib from Publisher's Marketplace today:
NON-FICTION: HUMOR
Huffington Post contributor (and former Fishbowl blogger) Rachel Sklar's JEW-ISH, a guide to understanding the difference between a shiksa and a latke, and why there are so many ways to spell Chanukah, pitched as something like AMERICA: THE BOOK, except about Jews, and what it takes to be a good one, or a good-ish one (now go call your mother!), to Matthew Benjamin at Collins, by Kate Lee at ICM (world English).
We wish a hearty mazel tov to both Rachel and Kate, and we eagerly await the sure-to-be-forthcoming subsequent books in the Sklarian series: THE YEAR OF SAYING YES TO JON STEWART, FISH PUNS FOR DUMMIES, and, of course, CANADA: THE BOOK (pitched as AMERICA: THE BOOK, except about Canada).
Comments
Your headline really scared me. For a second, I thought I was about to read that Jessica Sklar, aka Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld, had written and published a book, which was going to make me have to go upstairs and hurl my own non-publishing self off the roof.
To quote The Stewart: "It's like being born with a dead sea scroll up the butt."
I don't understand. Who is this book for? There's a hundred or more dedicated websites on this subject, and there's "Judaism For Dummies" and a few others like that. Is this for people who don't have the internet or live in NYC? I honestly don't get it. And who doesn't know the difference between a latke and a shiksa? That's easy. One you eat at Hannukah and one you eat at Christmas. Duh.
Also, you can put yogurt on both.
That's a funny one Mick. I personally think Rachel should do a book for those amongst the tribe that are only in it, as a friend of mine always likes to say, "for the jokes and the food." I think I know less about Judaism than Jon Stewart does, and I went to Hebrew school for seven years (all of which I've conveniently blocked from my memory).
yes indeed. go rachel. jessica?
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