Adam Sobsey

New book, A JEWISH APPENDIX, out in '25 from @SpuytenDyvil. Biographer of Chrissie Hynde. Published @parisreview, @lareviewofbooks, many others.

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

Presenting Rob's staff pick of 2025, @sobsey revisits the early-1980s Los Angeles indie-pop scene: https://t.co/cfJULKlgvQ

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I reviewed the new Grant-Lee Phillips album ‘In the Hour of Dust’. Politics! Also, tenderness. Protest songs! Also, lullabies: https://t.co/AkezL6dxOA

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I talked with current #guggenheim fellow Nell Zink, and explored her latest novel ‘Sister Europe’, for @LAReviewofBooks: https://t.co/Hq2EhjB0dE

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Writing for @LAReviewofBooks is always a pleasure; doubly so writing for @LAReviewofBooks about one of my favorite living writers (and the opportunity to talk with her at length).

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"In a way, 'Sister Europe' is a dinner party recast as a sort of impromptu Debordian dérive, in which the dramatis personae lurch through their cockeyed and sometimes shared psychogeographies." @sobsey on “Sister Europe” by Nell Zink. https://t.co/1GKg9Q6eu8

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@USAmbRO Greetings Chargé d’affaires Michael L. Dickerson. I’m a US writer of 🇷🇴 descent. My new book ‘A Jewish Appendix’ is about my Romanian origins, the country’s rich & complex Jewish history, & combating antisemitism. May I send it to you? If so, let me know how.

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TONIGHT! I'm reading from 'A Jewish Appendix' @FlyleafBooks in Chapel Hill. Joining me for post-reading Q&A and convo is Rabbi Hannah Bender of Judea Reform Congregation. Please come! https://t.co/aocDNw5PJR

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New interview w/ me about 'A Jewish Appendix' by @yonatshimron. "Samuel to Saul: ‘And you shall turn into another man.' The act of writing is an act of not only invention but self-reinvention. Every work of writing recreates you in the act of doing it."
https://t.co/qyf790gztl

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‘A Jewish Appendix’ is launched! Here I am, yakking at the official launch reading and fête on Sunday. More events are upcoming, stay tuned! Meanwhile, you can buy the book here: https://t.co/cJCfh9nDyT

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I was interviewed & my memoir 'A Jewish Appendix' sensitively discussed by the wonderful @indyweek writer @LenaRoseGeller: https://t.co/NEQtqKPsm1 My book was published 4 days ago. Get a copy! https://t.co/rPWQlTbwLd #Memoir #JewishLit

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I was lucky to receive such perceptive attention from a reader & writer so gifted.

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Writers dream of such generous and sensitive treatment. Thank you @LenaRoseGeller & @indyweek. My book ‘A Jewish Appendix’ is out now: https://t.co/rPWQlTbwLd

[Sarah Edwards @eddy_sarah]

an extremely thoughtful interview by @LenaRoseGeller on @sobsey's memoir that "defies easy categorization" - on synchronicities, open doors, and the weight of history. really glad to have spent time with this! https://t.co/PxpDtYffL1

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It was a *major* delight to interview (my hero(ine)) Neko Case. We discussed, among other things, her new memoir, rage, forgiveness, Dexter Romweber & so much more. For the Missouri Review: https://t.co/ionEPVX1j9

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And, to complete the @LAReviewofBooks writers/Jews sequence, here is my essay about a non-Jewish writer so obsessed w/ Jews that things get, well, complicated. Me on W.G. Sebald: https://t.co/rBuEvelaGY

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While we're at it, speaking of @LAReviewofBooks essays and Jews, here is me on James Salter, reviewing a vexing new-ish biography/study of Salter by one of his admirers -- or is that enviers? https://t.co/BwcWk6IcVh

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Also, with Kieran Culkin winning yet another award for 'A Real Pain,' check out my @LAReviewofBooks essay on the movie & my own search for Jewish roots in Eastern Europe: https://t.co/9mzsmFaXoo

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With Rain Parade's 'Emergency 3rd Rail Power Trip,' one of the greatest psychedelic pop albums ever, recently reissued, I wrote about the Paisley Underground, LA's early-80s music scene that has been surprisingly durable. For @LAReviewofBooks: https://t.co/aVRsv4JZyF

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"The Paisley Underground may have been populated by the children of punk, but they rebelled against the rebels who begat them." @sobsey revisits the early-1980s Los Angeles indie pop scene. https://t.co/cfJULKlgvQ

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"What began for me as nothing like a roots trip had now become one, intensely, painfully, as I visited place after place from which my roots had been ripped out." @sobsey reflects on "A Real Pain" and his own excavation of his Jewish roots. https://t.co/5APyDyCoD0

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For @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about the BAFTA-winning movie 'A Real Pain' & its resonances with my own search for Jewish roots & inheritance of epigenetic trauma: https://t.co/9mzsmFapyQ

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My memoir 'A Jewish Appendix' will be published in less than a month, and I'm already out there with it. Find out where here: https://t.co/lE3p6SF7Vx