Jon Papernick

Jonathan "Jon" Papernick (born 1970) is a Canadian-born American short story writer, novelist and storyteller.

Jon Papernick.

Career

Papernick was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of The Ascent of Eli Israel, a collection of short stories set in Israel during the collapse of the Oslo Peace Accords,[1] the short story collection There Is No Other, the limited-edition anthology of erotic short fiction XYXX, and the novel The Book of Stone. His work has appeared in the anthologies Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From The Edge (2003) and Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary Jewish Fiction (2006) and numerous literary journals.

In the summer of 2010, Papernick began hand-selling his books via pushcart at farmers' markets in New England and New York as Papernick the Book Peddler.[2] The name is an homage to the classic Yiddish writer Sholem Yankev Abramovich, AKA Mendele Mocher Sforim (Mendele the Book Peddler.) Papernick the Book Peddler's motto is: Bringing Market-Fresh Fiction Directly to the People.

He is a senior writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.[3]

Bibliography
  • The Ascent of Eli Israel. New York: Arcade, 2002 ISBN 1-55970-683-X
  • There Is No Other. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2010 ISBN 978-1-55096-138-6
  • XYXX. Print-on-Demand, 2013 ISBN 9781939606075
  • The Book of Stone. New York: Fig Tree Books, 2015 ISBN 978-1-941493-04-5

References
  1. New York Times Book Review of The Ascent of Eli Israel,
  2. Huffington Post on Papernick the Book Peddler,
  3. "Adventures in old-time bookselling". Boston Globe. June 24, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2010.
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