Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
Like the music world, authors can now put out digital “singles” online, and latest author to jump on the trend is National Jewish Book Award winner Dara Horn (In the Image, The World to Come, All Other Nights). We recently received this email:
As of today, my newest work, “The Rescuer,” is available online. It’swhat I like to think of as a “mini book”– a 50-page nonfiction essayI wrote for Tablet Magazine (www.tabletmag.com), which is being soldas a “Kindle Single” on Amazon. (No, you don’t need a Kindle to readit– any computer will do!)“The Rescuer” is about Varian Fry, a 32 year old American Harvardgraduate who saved about 2,000 celebrities and their families fromNazi-occupied France, including Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, MarcelDuchamp, and many other world-famous people in an unparalleled effortto save Western civilization… after which he was promptly forgotten.The reasons why no one has heard of this man today are more disturbingthan I ever would have guessed.“The Rescuer” is on sale now for $1.99. Alternatively, you could usethat money to buy a bag of potato chips. (Or why not buy both, for theprincely sum of $3.98?)You can read an excerpt of the essay, and listen to a podcastinterview of me, here in Tablet:http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/88130/the-rescuer/
I would be thrilled if you would share this with anyone you know whomight be interested in history, or in the fate of civilization, or inwhy we value what we do. (It’s something to think about while enjoyingyour potato chips.)