JCC Albuquerque Presents the 2014 JCC BOOK FEST & AUTHOR SERIES, 10/19-29

By: BWW News Desk Oct. 07, 2014

PRESENTING authors and books that stimulate learning and community conversation
PROMOTING reading, writing, and awareness of books, both fiction and non-fiction
OFFERING a variety of rich and stimulating in-person author programs with wide appeal

Allen Salkin, From Scratch: The Uncensored History of the Food Network

Sun 10/19 3 pm
tickets $10 advance, $15 at door; book $17

Sausage-making and scandals, Garten (Ina) and gossip, Salkin's dishy behind-the scenes history of the Food Network and the celebrity chefs it made famous will fascinate anyone interested in food, media, and after-hours wheeling and dealing. As a reporter forThe New York Times, Salkin has written hundreds of features about food, culture, and media. This book is an exhilarating roller coaster ride from chaos to conquest-and sometimes back again. Anecdotes, slides and video clips will bring these real tales to life.

Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans

2014 National Book Awards Finalist!

Wed 10/22 7 pm
tickets $10 advance $15 at door; book $15

Tales from Tel Aviv to the Upper West Side, Belarus and beyond, Molly Antopol's debut collection of short stories depicts sympathetic characters struggling for footing in an uncertain world. These provocative and haunting stories are intimate depictions of the lives of Old-World and New-World Jews. Antopol, professor at Stanford, recently won the National Book Foundations "5 Under 35."

Nicole Mones, Night in Shanghai

Thur 10/23 7 pm
tickets $10 advance $15 at door; book $25

NPR's Alan Cheuse calls Nicole Mones' novel, "historical fiction at its best." This page-turner reveals the saga of African-American jazzmen living in Shanghai in the 1930s, until the Japanese bombing of Shanghai and the outbreak of World War II. Meanwhile, in Vienna, Chinese Consul Ho Feng-Shan falsifies thousands of visas, enabling Jewish families to escape. Based on true stories, Night in Shanghaiis an entertaining look at a time largely forgotten. The presentation will include period slides and music.

Gail Sheehy, Daring: My Passages

Sun 10/26 3 pm
tickets $10 advance $15 at door, book $30

Gail Sheehy, legendary author of the worldwide bestseller,Passages, turns the lens on her own passages in this gutsy memoir. In Daring, we follow Sheehy as she overcomes the 'pink ghetto' of newspapers-"women's pages"- to conquer the gritty "man's world" of New Journalism. Writing for New York Magazine and others, Sheehy walked city streets with hookers to expose violent prostitution, marched with protesters in Northern Ireland, and interviewed Egypt's president Anwar Sadat after he was targeted for assassination. An amazing life told in person by the woman who is living it!

Juliana Maio, City of the Sun

Wed 10/29 11:30 am
tickets Luncheon $25 (reservations required); book $16

It's 1941 in wartime Egypt, and Cairo is playing host to a stream of refugees, spies and soldiers from around the world. Jewish/Egyptian-born author Juliana Maio's enthralling historical novel sets a love story against the backdrop of an increasingly threatened Jewish community with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood. Passion, espionage, and shifting alliances converge in a time and place that sowed much of the turbulence in today's Middle East, which Maio will also address.

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