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Papernick the Book Peddler
Past Appearances Aug. 28, Waltham Farmers Market Sept1. Wayland, MA Farmers Market Sept. 3, Portland, ME First Friday Sept. 4, Portland Farmers Market Sept. 6, Portland Farmers Market Sept. 11, Carlisle, MA Farmers Market Sept. 25, TBD Oct. 2, NYC Peddler Procession from Brooklyn to Upper West Side 
On the Brooklyn Bridge
At Union Square NYC
Photos by Gary Alpert
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Facts Jonathan Papernick was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He lived in Israel during the mid 1990s, working as a journalist in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He later studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and received his MFA in fiction.
His first collection of short stories The Ascent of Eli Israel was published by Arcade Publishing in 2002 and received a full-page review in the New York Times and a starred review in Publishers Weekly. His first novel entitled, Who by Fire, Who by Blood was published by Exile Editions in 2007. The Jerusalem Report called it "...a fast-paced thriller ...frightening ...a finely drawn picture of a human being unraveling." His second collection of short stories There is No Other will be published by Exile Editions in the spring of 2010. Author Dara Horn wrote about There is No Other, "Every single story here delivers a knock-out punch that will leave you reeling long after you've put it down -- and revising your thinking on what life and love really mean." In 2010 Papernick came up with his alter-ego persona Papernick the Book Peddler based on the great Yiddish writer, Mendele the Book Peddler, and sold his book in farmers' markets with an updated fluorescent pushcart. Papernick reasoned that he is "going old school, building face-to-face relationships in an age where new technologies and e-books have replaced human contact." Papernick the Book Peddler has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, The Jewish Week, Poets and Writers and elsewhere. Papernick's short fiction has appeared in publications such as Exile, The Sarah Lawrence Review, The Reading Room, Nerve.com, Memorious, Zeek, Night Train Magazine, Confrontation, and the anthologies Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge, and Scribblers on the Roof. Papernick has taught fiction writing at Pratt Institute, Brandeis University, Bar Ilan University, Grub Street Writers and BIMA at Brandeis University. Papernick is currently Writer-in Residence at Emerson College. He lives outside Boston with his wife and sons. The Ascent of Eli Israel will be re-released in 2011 by Skyhorse Publishing with an introduction by Dara Horn. |
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