Author Steve Stern

Steve Stern, author of the Melville House novella North of God –which Sadford Pinsker praised as “a Jewish-American classic” — is back again, but this time he’s taking a page out of Charles Dickens’playbook, serializing his forthcoming novel The Frozen Rabbi in postings on Tablet Magazine, a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. The book comes out in May from Algonquin, but not before the eager masses get a sneak preview of it at Tablet.

So, not to give anything away, but … there’s this rabbi who gets frozen, see, through the ages, see, and at one point he thaws out in 1960’s suburban America …. In other words it’s pure Stern — funny, bizarre (really bizarre) and brilliant! And did we mention funny?