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Cleveland Jewish news, November 7, 2009
...Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter. By Peter Manseau. Simon & Schuster Inc. New York. 2009. 384 pp. $14. Anyone who has even a bisel (a bit of) knowledge of Yiddish and kvells over stories about the Old...
Hour, September 25, 2009
...September 10th, 2009 Sage storytelling MJ Stone by Peter Manseau (Simon and Schuster), 370 pp. Religious thinker and Yiddish language typesetter Peter Manseau looks poetically at Jewish Russia in Songs for the Butcher's Daughter As the son of...
San Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 2009
...to the institutions that house them. And like all high-demand items, relics tend to inspire counterfeit knock-offs. But Peter Manseau argues in his book 'Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead' that what's really important about relics is...
Buffalo News, April 12, 2009
...book will really be your sort of thing. Because it cant be faulted in approach or in execution; Peter Manseau is too canny a reporter, and writer, for that. Subject matter is what this one boils down to, friends, and you will either love it or recoil...
The Independent, February 19, 2009
...Acts of literary ventriloquism don't come very much bolder than Peter Manseau's. What kind of author might you expect to steep himself in the folklore-studded fiction of Russian Jewish life, both in the pogrom-prone Pale and then, after migration, in...
Metro.co.uk, February 18, 2009
...Book Of The Week: Songs For The Butcher?s Daughter by Peter Manseau (Simon & Schuster, £14.99) Songs For The Butcher?s Daughter This debut novel has plenty in common with Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated. Both combine the...
New Yorker, February 18, 2009
...In January, the religion writer and memoirist Peter Manseau won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction for his début novel, ?Songs for the Butcher?s Daughter? (Free Press), the story of the life of an elderly Yiddish...
Library Journal, January 29, 2009
...Presss Pop Culture Universe. Lastly, RUSA presented its Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature to Peter Manseau for Songs for the Butchers Daughter (Free Pr.). Neil Gaiman wins Newbery Beth Krommes snags Caldecott Dallas PLs...
STLtoday.com, January 14, 2009
...University Press/University Press of New England Fiction Winner: Songs for the Butcher?s Daughter: A Novel Peter Manseau Free Press Finalists: Light Fell Evan Fallenberg Soho Press Memory: A Novel Philippe Grimbert Simon & Schuster ...
Beacon Broadside, August 6, 2009
...and a contributing editor to Harper's and Rolling Stone. ( Editor's note: Sharlet is also co-editor, with Peter Manseau, of Believer Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith .) With typical Christian duality, C Street has reportedly been...
The Revealer, May 29, 2009
...a treat to be able to announce that Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, by Revealer contributing editor Peter Manseau, is the winner of this year's National Jewish Book Award for fiction. You can hear Peter talk about his novel with NPR's Scott Simon here....
Reading Group Guides Blog, April 30, 2009
...by Ilana Stanger-Ross SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME by Leif Enger SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER by Peter Manseau STILL ALICE by Lisa Genova THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE by Andrew Sean Greer THE TEN-YEAR NAP by Meg Wolitzer TWO RIVERS by T. Greenwood...
The Book Publicity Blog, April 24, 2009
...Here are the NPR interviews for this week. Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer,...
signs of life, April 4, 2009
...I sometimes forget the forest while admiring his grammatical trees. Today a publisher sent a handsome hardcover of Peter Manseau’s latest, Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead . I’m a couple chapters in and it looks promising. ...
A Progressive on the Prairie, April 1, 2009
...collection of stories to pique my interest. Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead , Peter Manseau — I don’t know why but I’m attracted by these sorts of books — Manseau travels the world in search of religious relics. A fairly...
The Revealer, February 3, 2009
...a treat to be able to announce that Songs for the Butcher's Daughter , by Revealer contributing editor Peter Manseau, is the winner of this year's National Jewish Book Award for fiction. You can hear Peter talk about his novel with NPR's Scott Simon here...
Jewish Book Council Blog, January 30, 2009
...Council’s Book Club Resources to view reviews, links, and discussion guides for Sholem Aleichem’s Wandering Stars , Peter Manseau’s Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter , and Mietek Pemper’s The Road to Rescue . Posted in Jewish Books Tagged:...
The Revealer, January 14, 2009
...Suffering of It All" at Search , the new(ish) magazine of science and religion edited by Revealer contributor Peter Manseau. Highlights from the current issue include several stories from the Revealer/Killing the Buddha gang: Ashley Makar on "Visions of...





















