Thursday, March 26, 2020
7 – 8:30 pm

Unpack­ing the Book series is mov­ing online! Join us at our orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled time for a Zoom con­ver­sa­tion with Josh Gondel­man (Nice Try: Sto­ries of Best Inten­tions and Mixed Results, Harper­ Peren­ni­al) and author Rebec­ca Din­er­stein Knight (Hex, Viking) togeth­er with Tablet Mag­a­zine​​’s Stephanie Butnick.

Join us from any­where, no video/​microphone nec­es­sary (video of you will not be vis­i­ble to oth­ers).

Join the webinar on Thursday, March 26 at 7 pm EDT at https://zoom.us/j/287602641
Meeting ID: 287 602 641
Or by phone: US: +1.646.558.8656

Dur­ing the talk, share your pho­tos on social media with @jewishbookcouncil, @thejewishmuseum, @tabletmag.

We encourage you to purchase books online from either your local indie bookstore, or another third party retailer. 

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Actions and intentions — which mat­ter more? And what hap­pens when your best inten­tions have unin­tend­ed results? These questions have long been debated in Jewish texts, and author and come­di­an Josh Gondel­man (Nice Try: Sto­ries of Best Inten­tions and Mixed Results, Harper­ Peren­ni­al) and author Rebec­ca Din­er­stein Knight (Hex, Viking) bring them to the present day. Together with Tablet Mag­a­zine​’s Stephanie But­nick, they dis­cuss the fun­ny, the unnerving, and the often quite seri­ous busi­ness of being human today, and how they explore the sub­ject in their writing. 

Josh Gondel­man is the author of Nice Try: Sto­ries of Best Inten­tions and Mixed Results and a come­di­an and writer who has earned two Peabody Awards, three Emmys, and two WGA Awards for his work on Last Week Tonight with John Oliv­er on HBO. He is cur­rent­ly a writer/​producer for Desus & Mero on Show­time. In the past, Josh has writ­ten for Bil­ly on the Street. His writ­ing has also appeared in the New York Times, New York mag­a­zine, and the New York­er. He lives in New York City with his wife and pug.

Rebec­ca Din­er­stein Knight is the author of the nov­el Hex, the nov­el and screen­play The Sun­lit Night, and a col­lec­tion of poems, Lofoten. Her non­fic­tion has appeared in the New York Times and the New York­er online, among oth­ers. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in New Hampshire.

Stephanie But­nick is deputy edi­tor of Tablet and a host of the Unortho­dox pod­cast. She is the author, along with her co-hosts, of The Newish Jew­ish Ency­clo­pe­dia: From Abra­ham to Zabar’s and Every­thing in Between. She has writ­ten for the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Co-presented with the Jewish Book Council, in partnership with Tablet Magazine.