Read Horn’s ‘All Other Nights’ then join author at discussion to benefit Cogan Scholarship
By JEWISH REVIEW
article created on: 2010-03-01T00:00:00
One of America’s most prominent young novelists, Dara Horn will be in Portland on April 8 to discuss her latest novel, “All Other Nights.”
The just-after-Passover timing of the event is perfect for a novel that opens on Passover in 1862, during the American Civil War. Called “engrossing” and “delicious” by the New York Times, “gripping” and “marvelous” by the Washington Post, and “rare” and “memorable” by the Wall Street Journal, Horn’s third novel is both based on real Civil War history and as a suspenseful story about Jewish men and women driven to the limits of loyalty and betrayal.
Horn’s talk will take place at 6 p.m. at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, and is sponsored by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University, Cedar Sinai Park, Oregon Area Jewish Committee, Oregon Jewish Museum, Mittleman Jewish Community Center, Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, National Council of Jewish Women-Portland Section, Jewish Student Union at PSU, Greater Portland Hillel and Oregon Jewish Community Foundation. Admission is $10, free for students, and the event is followed by a dinner reception with the author for donors at the $180 level.
Proceeds from the event benefit the Sara Glasgow Cogan Scholarship, which is awarded each year to PSU students who undertake service-learning internships with local Jewish communal and cultural institutions.
Recently listed on the “Forward 50” as one of America’s most lauded young writers, Horn first burst onto the scene at the age of 25, when her first novel, “In the Image,” won a 2003 National Jewish Book Award. Her second novel, “The World to Come,” received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and was selected as an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review. Also in 2006, she received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University, where she studied Hebrew and Yiddish.
Annie Bloom’s Books and Broadway Books are both stocking extra copies of “All Other Nights” to meet demand.
For more information, contact Jenn Director Knudsen at jenn.d.knudsen@pdx.edu or 503-725-3976.
