Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Ok ok, I know you have a bit of a wait for Joshua Cohen’s new book, Four New Mes­sages (August 7, 2012), but I could­n’t resist shar­ing now (don’t wor­ry – we’ll remind you). To hold you over until then, check out reviews of Witz and A Heav­en of Oth­ers and check out Cohen’s posts on the Vis­it­ing Scribe.

Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor and now CEO, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.