Adam Sobsey’s new memoir, A Jewish Appendix, was published in October from Spuyten Duyvil Press. Adam writes: “A Jewish Appendix is about my deep reckoning—first ambivalently, then traumatically, and then passionately—with a Jewish identity that meant little to me until a life-changing trip to Romania, where I have ancestry. My story is ‘unique, thrilling, and epically weird—in the best sense,’ according to Squirrel Hill author Mark Oppenheimer, and ‘the most variable and memorable use of the metaphor of the appendix since Brian Eno’s A Year with Swollen Appendices,’ in the words of Gene Smith’s Sink author Sam Stephenson. It’s also a very timely book in this moment of conflict in Gaza and resurgent antisemitism here in America.” Adam is the author of rock icon Chrissie Hynde’s biography, coauthor of a book about minor league baseball, and a contributor to The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and many others. He is a staff writer at PopMatters and Spectrum Culture. He earned his master’s degree from the University of Texas’ Michener Center for Writers.
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