Tag: The Gourmet Club

Yiddish Wisdom: Just a Forshpayz

Posted on by Michael Kahn
As you may have noticed, many authors place a special quotation on the page before the first chapter of their novel. For example, Harper Lee opened To Kill a Mockingbird with the following quote from Charles Lamb: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.” Ernest Hemingway opened The Sun Also Rises with this quote from Gertrude…
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The Gourmet Club: The First Review

Posted on by Michael Kahn
As my fellow authors can firm, nothing triggers that spike in blood pressure and heartbeat more than that email from your publisher sending you a link to the very first review of your new book. You take a deep breath, exhale slowly, and nervously click on the link. You read the opening sentence, hoping it…
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