‘Boy From the North Country’ Join Author Sam Sussman in Conversation with Cantor Dan Singer Tickets | Stephen Wise Free Synagogue

On March 26, the literary world will gather for the annual celebration of the Jewish Book Council and its National Jewish Book Awards. It is a moment of recognition, of honor, of spotlight. But Jewish storytelling has never really lived in the spotlight. It lives in what happens next.

On March 26, just hours after the awards ceremony, we will welcome Sam Sussman to Stephen Wise Free Synagogue for a live conversation about his book Boy from the North Country, a one of three finalists this year for both the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction and Debut Fiction. The timing is intentional. Because the real life of a book begins not at the gala, but in the room where it is opened, questioned, and shared.

Sussman’s book touches, in part, on the enduring cultural presence of Bob Dylan. And yet, it is important to say clearly what the book is not. It is not a book about Dylan. It is not an attempt to decode or define a famously private artist. Dylan remains, as he has always been, elusive by design. But his music does something else. It enters people’s........

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