Joseph Zitt

I’ll be out of town for the next week, off in New Jersey for the Moses performance and the beginning of Passover. While I’ll have my laptop with me, I’m not sure about connectivity with it. The best ways to reach me, if needed, will be by my cell phone or my gmail address (my first name dot my last name at gmail dot com).

The Moses project is on. I’ll be performing it with the Toms River Multigenerational Orchestra on Sunday, April 1. It will be a private performance, at a residential care facility somewhere in Jackson, NJ, and I won’t be able to invite people to the gig. But I hope to get a useful recording of the performance, and to be able to post it online.
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I’m pleased, proud, and relieved to announce that my father’s novel, Troika, is now in print.

It’s been a process that’s taken over twenty years, counting from the conversation that I had with him that sparked the book, as we sat in a plaza in Tel Aviv in the summer of 1986. While the first draft of the book was complete about ten years later, a wide variety of delays had led it to only being published now.

The official publication date was November 7, the one-year anniversary (according to the Jewish calendar) of my father’s passing. I had let the family know, but held off on a public announcement until I had received a copy of the finished book from the printers. (Fortunately, my father got to see and hold a proof copy in his last days, though he was too tired to look at it for long.)
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As many of you know, I’ve been working for a long time on publishing my father’s novel, Troika. Unfortunately, it’s being released posthumously, though he did get to see a near-final printed copy. The text is now ready to roll, pending one fix that’s had me stuck for a few months. Continue Reading »