Howard Jacobson is the author of eight previous novels, including The Mighty Walzer (winner of the 1999 Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic writing), and several works of nonfiction. He lives in London.
In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights...
Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British...
... The Lost Symbol -Dan Brown 2. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel 3. The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson 4. Room – Emma Donoghue 5. Worth Dying For – Lee Child 6. 61 Hours – Lee Child 7. The Short Second...
...feeling out, even if we don’t know what it is.” He mentions a talk show with novelist Howard Jacobson: “We were talking about porn. I said that I’ve learned from porn – I’m quite grateful. And then Howard Jacobson said: ‘A man’s mind is a...
...Your memoir dealt with the question of whether or not you would circumcise your first son. (He did.) Howard Jacobson's Mann-Booker Prize-winning novel, The Finkler Question, features a gentile protagonist who considers becoming Jewish but can't get past...
...acclaimed life of Dickens. But there is no suppressing the admirers of ‘The Inimitable’ in his bicentennial year. Howard Jacobson took to the pages of Saturday’s Guardian to pan the BBC’s coverage of this unfolding event, particularly its...
...Solomon. Best-selling author Steven Pinker's subject is basketball coach Red Auerbach (OW'-er-bahk). And Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson has picked pingpong legend Marty Reisman. The book is called "Jewish Jocks." It's a collection of...
...Solomon. Bestselling author Steven Pinker's subject is basketball coach Red Auerbach (OW'-er-bahk). And Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson has picked pingpong legend Marty Reisman. The book is called "Jewish Jocks." It's a collection of essays...
...Solomon. Bestselling author Steven Pinker's subject is basketball coach Red Auerbach (OW'-er-bahk). And Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson has picked pingpong legend Marty Reisman. The book is called "Jewish Jocks." It's a collection of essays...
...a showman. Last year saw a nailbiting finish between Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America and Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question, both favourites after some judicious comments about the vigour of the comic novel, while 2009 formalised the...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, October 11, 2011
...receive £2,500 and a designer-bound edition of their book.Last year's winner, The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson, has sold more than 250,000 copies in the UK alone.nino.williams@swwmedia.co.uk...
News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk, September 28, 2011
...Patrick deWitt (The Sisters Brothers) and Esi Edugyan (Half Blood Blues).Last year the Booker was won by Howard Jacobson for his comic novel The Finkler Question.But does winning the Booker Prize guarantee an author a long-term boom in sales? Last...
...In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut sold 1210 in five months grossing £15850. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson sold 3505 in one month grossing £54614. C by Tom McCarthy sold 2649 in one month grossing £35073. The other two titles on the short...
News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk, September 19, 2011
...Patrick deWitt (The Sisters Brothers) and Esi Edugyan (Half Blood Blues).Last year the Booker was won by Howard Jacobson for his comic novel The Finkler Question.But does winning the Booker Prize guarantee an author a boom in sales? Last October we...
Comment is free | guardian.co.uk, September 10, 2011
...Catherine Bennett The Observer, Sunday 11 September 2011 Was Jeffrey Archer entered for the 2011 Booker? He had a book out. And this year's judges have explicitly exalted, above all other qualities, that of "readability". Archer is horribly readable. How...
...to immerse themselves in a good book. Jeff Bussgang, general partner, Flybridge Capital Partners “The Finkler Question,” by Howard Jacobson — “A wry fictional work about philo-Semitism (as opposed to anti-Semitism)” “Delirious,” by...