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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Force of Things

Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
February 6, 2013

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Pub­bing next week from FSG is Alexan­der Stille’s lit­er­ary mem­oir The Force of Things: A Mar­riage in War and Peace, which tells the sto­ry of his par­ents— jour­nal­ist Mikhail Kamenet­z­ki (aka Ugo Stille) and Eliz­a­beth Bogert, a beau­ty from the Amer­i­can Mid­west — who meet in New York in 1948.


View past ​“Book Cov­er of the Week” posts here.

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.

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