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 more, I’m not sure on 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.
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 [...]
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.
There's more at josephzitt.com.
From the author of 19th Nervous Breakdown: Making Human Connections in the Landscape of Commerce
"Customers have told me that I approach bookselling like a ministry. Sometimes I find people exactly what they want; I hope that sometimes I find what they need. And helping the store make a profit is probably a good thing, too. But what I look for is the human contact, the communication, the chance to help people leave the store happier than they came in."