"[#HowardJacobson] has #written and spoken about how unmoored he has felt from his country, society and fellow citizens during the brutal conflict in #Israel and #Gaza, and has attracted opprobrium for doing so; in #Howl, he explores not simply a feeling of being out of joint with the times, but of experiencing the reawakened fear of #displacement and #violence that #antisemitism provokes. He knows, one suspects, that some #readers will find this utterly enraging, not to say morally repulsive, and he confronts them head on; in Ferdinand Draxler, he creates a man who wholeheartedly believes that #7October has allowed #Jew-hatred to flourish untrammelled, who argues – to anyone who will listen, and even more to those who will not – that it has provided the alibi for #antisemites to do what they wanted to do all along.

Unsurprisingly, Howl is an immensely uncomfortable #novel; it is also, like most of #Jacobson’s work, a comic one."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/16/howl-by-howard-jacobson-review-a-tragicomic-portrait-of-a-jewish-mans-despair

'The Orville' Season 4 Is Written, Can Return to Hulu

https://misryoum.com/us/trending/the-orville-season-4-is-written-can-return/

Seth MacFarlane‘s The Orville may be ready to take flight again. MacFarlane, who is promoting Thursday’s launch for the second season of Peacock series Ted, tells The Hollywood Reporter that the writing team behind The Orville has penned 10...

#The #Orville #Season #Written #Can #Return #Hulu #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

I've #written 384 pages in my #journal so far this year.  My average is ~6.5 pages per day. I expect this will pick up as I go along. I have a lot of writing to do.

This is what I mean by I use my #fountainpens for #writing. I've emptied 6-8 of my pens over the last two weeks.

The reason for all of this writing in a journal? I am doing something of a brain dump. Putting as many things from the past as I can remember down in writing. Many of these memories will later be woven into #fictional #stories that I am working on.

This is the reason that I am writing them manually. I don't want these #memories to be online in any form. I don't want #AI companies using my memories to train their wretched systems.

The best part about this? #Security. These journals are locked in a fireproof safe. When I am done with them, I will shred them with a diamond cut shredder. I will then take the cut up pieces and either put them in a bucket of water and make a slurry out of them, or I will burn them.  They will not be recovered, ever.

"Never judge a #book by its cover, the saying goes. Well, with #EishetChayil: #WomanofValor, published by #Kehot #Publication Society, you actually can.

Pick up the beautiful #hardcover, encased in a lavender slipcase, and you know you are holding something exquisite. The book feels less like a volume and more like an object meant to be treasured. Its linen-bound cover invites you to open the pages with thoughtful intention.

What becomes clear almost immediately is that the book’s external beauty is proportional to the depth contained within.

#Written by renowned #author #Rabbi #YossiMarcus, Eishet Chayil focuses in its entirety on the hymn from #KingSolomon’s #Proverbs of the same name honoring the woman of valor, which is traditionally sung at the #Shabbat table on Friday nights, through the lens of 24 #Jewish #heroines."

https://crownheights.info/chabad-news/936427/a-beautifully-bound-tribute-to-the-jewish-women-who-changed-history/