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Article: Globe North People
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
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- October 29, 2009
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JEWISH BOOK MONTH: To prepare the lineup for Jewish Book Month,
presented by the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore in
Marblehead, organizer Susan Steigman reads scores of book reviews
and bestsellers, and attends an annual author event where she
listens to 200 of them speak for two minutes.
This year's program, which kicks off Sunday, features seven
events throughout the month.
"You can figure out in two minutes if an author is a good
speaker. The whole premise is to try to offer something for
everyone: men, women, fiction, non-fiction," said Steigman, who
spends a year developing the program.
Another criteria is that the author is Jewish or the book is on a
Jewish subject. The goal ...