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entertained as
a standup
comedian and
actor, wants to
bring laughter
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His subject is
himself in a
coming-of-age
memoir, The
Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue
(Touchstone/Simon & Schuster;
$24.95).
Klein, recalling the circumstances
that led to his career and revealing
early sexual encounters, remembers
his years as a youngster in New York
and comments on the Jewish tradi-
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explain his experiences with the
Second City comedy troupe in
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verted to Judaism provides some new
perspectives on the Bible with The
Reluctant Parting: How the New
Testament's Jewish Writers Created
a Christian Book
(HarperSanFrancisco; $24.95.)
Author Julie Galambush, an associ-
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explores the first followers of Jesus as
one Jewish sect among many.
Galambush probes the common roots
of modern Judaism and Christianity
and discusses their traditions.

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Comic books may be fun, but the
people who developed them were not
necessarily funny So says Gerard Jones,
author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks,
Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic
Book (Basic Books; $26).
Jones, who writes about all kinds of
writing, reports on children of Jewish
immigrants whose colorful lives helped
develop the superheroes of American
culture.

University of Michigan graduate
David Margolick, contributing editor
at Vanity Fair, recalls Detroit hero Joe
Louis in Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs.
Max Schmeling and a World on the
Brink (Knopf; $26.95).

Margolick
probes the mean-
ing of Louis'
achievements to
the Jews, and he
also discusses
Schmeling's
Jewish manager,
Joe Jacobs.

The Spanish
Inquisition and its resonance with cur-
rent events are covered in Dogs of God:
Columbus, the Inquisition, and the
Defeat of the Moors (Doubleday;
$27.95). Author James Reston Jr., who
wrote 12 books
before this one,
probes the reli-
gious intoler-
ance that target-
ed both
Muslims and
Jews.
As the text
unfolds, Reston
moves beyond
the terrors and delves into the promise
of the future in the New World.

FICTION

Harvey Pekar's The Quitter (DC
Comics; $19.99) joins the growing
number of graphic novels gaining
popular attention. Working with artist
Dean Haspiel, Pekar builds on his
childhood and moves into young
adulthood. The book recalls his
attempts and failures — in school, the
military and work.
Pekar's later years have been
recalled in the comic=like graphic
novel American Splendor, which was
adapted into film in 2003.

Scott Turow adds to his novel
achievements with Ordinary Heroes
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $25), a
sequel to Presumed Innocent. The
main character, retired newspaper-
man Stewart Dubinsky, delves into
family secrets after finding letters
written by his late father during World
War II.
The book follows Dubinsky's recon-
struction of the past and the insights
that come with discovery.

Jewish artist
and author
Jonathan
Santlofer com-
bines his two
interests in The
Killing Art
(William Morrow;
$24.95). Using

