Jon Papernick

Jon Papernick. Photo by Gary J. Alpert

Jonathan "Jon" Papernick (born 1970) is a Canadian-born American short story writer, novelist and essayist.

Career

Papernick was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of The Ascent of Eli Israel, a collection of short stories set in Israel during the collapse of the Oslo Peace Accords,^[1] the short story collection There Is No Other, the limited-edition anthology of erotic short fiction XYXX, and the novel The Book of Stone. His work has appeared in the anthologies Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From The Edge (2003) and Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary Jewish Fiction (2006) and numerous literary journals.

In the summer of 2010, Papernick began hand-selling his books via pushcart at farmers' markets in New England and New York as Papernick the Book Peddler.^[2] The name is an homage to the classic Yiddish writer Sholem Yankev Abramovich, AKA Mendele Mocher Sforim (Mendele the Book Peddler.) Papernick the Book Peddler's motto is: Bringing Market-Fresh Fiction Directly to the People.

He is a writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.^[3]

Bibliography

• The Ascent of Eli Israel. New York: Arcade, 2002 ISBN 1-55970-683-X
• There Is No Other. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2010 ISBN 978-1-55096-138-6
• XYXX. Print-on-Demand, 2013 ISBN 9781939606075
• The Book of Stone. New York: Fig Tree Books, 2015 ISBN 978-1-941493-04-5

References

1. New York Times Book Review of The Ascent of Eli Israel,
2. Huffington Post on Papernick the Book Peddler,
3. "Adventures in old-time bookselling". Boston Globe. June 24, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2010.

External links

• Author Website

Stories online:

• "The King of the King of Falafel"
• "Skin for Skin."
• "Trudy's Wedding."
• "Emails From My Dead Mother"
• "The Elimination Diet"

Essays:

• "NYT Well Blog Essay."
• "Jonathan Papernick's Defense of the Short Story."
• "You Came From Canada, eh?"