Jake Marmer

Jake Marmer is the author of Jazz Talmud (The Sheep Meadow Press). He contributes to the Chicago Tribune, Tablet Magazine, Jewish Review of Books, Jacket2, and the Forward.

Books

A Tale of Two Memoirs

Immigration accounts by Ayelet Tsabari and Sophia Shalmiyev question how self-identity is understood.

Books

Mind Music: Reading Clark Coolidge

Jack Kerouac’s writing opened up the literary horizons for Coolidge — horizons where a musician’s intuition and technique could be expressed in writing and thinking.