Joel Samberg
Reviewer Joel Samberg: Joel is an author, book editor, journalist, and corporate communications consultant with more than forty years of experience. He has written for Connecticut Magazine, Pittsburgh Magazine, New Jersey Monthly and dozens of others, and his nonfiction books have been on such topics as music, movies, and comedy. He is also the author of the 2019 novel, Blowin' in the Wind. You can learn more about Joel’s books and book editing service:You can learn more about Joel Here and Here.
Articles by this Author
Girl Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published May 3, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Camille Laurens,translated by Adriana Hunter
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 97801635421019
Rose Royal Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published March 20, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Nicolas Mathieu,translated by Sam Taylor
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 9781635421958
American Comics, A History Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published November 22, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Author:Jeremy Dauber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393635607
Journey Through Fire and Ice: Shattered Dreams Above the Arctic Circle Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published November 16, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Deanne Burch
Publisher: Authority Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-949642-59-9
A Crass Menagerie Contributed to Bookpleasures.com by Joel Samberg
- By Joel Samberg
- Published August 27, 2021
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
“Rise and shine! Rise and shine!”
Those
iconic words, warbled by the mother of an old warehouse buddy, Tom
Wingfield, began my forty-year quest to write and sell a screenplay
based on my experience playing The Gentleman Caller in a community
theater production of The Glass Menagerie.
What I didn’t know then, and what I find excruciatingly hard to believe now, is that my heartfelt effort would result in a cease-and-desist letter from a Madison Avenue law firm.
The Lives They Saved: The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners, and the Incredible Boatlift that Evacuated Nearly 300,000 People on 9/11 Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published August 23, 2021
- History
Author: L. Douglas Keeney
Publishers: Lyons Press: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 978-1-4930-4810-6
Real to Reel: Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published July 20, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Authors: Michael Asimow and Paul Bergman
Publisher: Vandeplas Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-60042-533-2
If I were a prosecutor, and this new book was on trial, I’d be tempted to nitpick in front of the jury. Ultimately, though, that shouldn’t matter much at all because almost all books about movies combine lists that simply must be finite and therefore will inevitably leave something out, and opinions that by definition are subjective, which inevitably will dismay a few people. So nitpicking is no big deal. Absolutely par for the course.
An Unofficial Marriage: A Novel about Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published May 31, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Joie Davidow
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9178-1-950691-78-4
A Perfect Facebook Life: Micro-Memoirs, Poems, and Very, Very Short Plays Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published May 4, 2021
- Humour
Author: A.J. O’ConnellPublisher: Woodhall Press
ISBN: 978-1949116328
The Dead Husband Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published May 3, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Carter WilsonPublisher: Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks
ISBN: 978-1-7282-2508-1
Face: One Square Foot of Skin Reviewed By Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published March 30, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Justine Bateman
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 978-1-61775-922-2
New Jersey Noir: Cape May Reviewed By Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published March 15, 2021
- Crime & Mystery
Author: William Baer
Publisher: Able Muse Press
ISBN: 978-1-77349-033-5
During a Pandemic, Can Rejection Notices Come in Handy? Contributed To Bookpleasures.com By Joel Samberg
- By Joel Samberg
- Published February 21, 2021
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
During a Pandemic, Can Rejection Notices Come in Handy?
As a writer, I was sheltering in place long before it became mandatory. It is from my home-office where I work on my books, edit fiction and nonfiction by other people, write magazine articles and reviews of newly published works, and try to develop what I hope might be a brilliant literary idea or two somewhere along the line.
Understanding Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Disorders for Family and Friends Reviewed By Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published February 17, 2021
- Health & Fitness
Authors: Carlin Barnes, MD and Marketa Wills, MD, MBA
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-5107-4594-0
Pointing and Shooting in George Plimpton’s Apartment Contributed to Bookpleasures.com By Joel Samberg
- By Joel Samberg
- Published February 3, 2021
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
Recently
I came across a book called George, Being George, with
recollections by notable people on their encounters with the writer
George Plimpton. I’ve never been notable enough to have been asked
to contribute, but I do have my own ‘George being George’ story.
The Mermaid and the Minotaur Reviewed By Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published February 1, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Author: DorothyDinnerstein
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 978-1-63542-094-4
Sunday in Ville-d’Avray Reviewed By Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published February 1, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 1635420458
Forget Russia Reviewed By Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published January 21, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Author: L.Bordetsky-Williams
Publisher: Tailwinds Press
ISBN: 978-1-7328480-4-7
The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published January 4, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Timothy Miller
Publisher: Seventh Street Press
ISBN: 978-1645060215
The Home Stretch Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published January 4, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Wayne M. Johnston
Publisher: Black Heron Press
ISBN: 978-1-93636434-3
New Watches, Old Dreams Contributed to Bookpleasures.com by Joel Samberg
- By Joel Samberg
- Published December 22, 2020
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
As
a writer I have always felt compelled to learn about as many people
as I can in order to build a mental storehouse of human traits and
qualities to write about. In fact, I’ve been studying people
closely ever since two cute nurses giggled at me (and my freckles)
when I was six years old and left abandoned in a hallway at a
hospital on Long Island, for what seemed like eternity before having
my tonsils removed. Even then I knew I’d write about them one day.
And see—I have!
Grounds for Murder Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published December 21, 2020
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Tara Lush
Publisher: Crooked Lane
ISBN: 978-1-64385-618-6
A Writer Without a Skeleton (in his closet, at least) Contributed to Bookpleasures.com by Joel Samberg
- By Joel Samberg
- Published November 15, 2020
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
As an author and book
editor (as most authors and book editors would agree), it’s
important to learn as much about other writers as possible. Through
the years, while reading interviews with and biographies of some of
our more famous literary icons, it often appeared that each and every
one of them had more than a handful of skeletons in their closets. Of
course, a little bit of marketing always plays into this equation:
writers who write about writers are well aware that if you write
about someone whose life is relatively boring, the reader will be
relatively bored.
Nobody Eats Parsley, and Other Things I Leaned from My Family Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published November 10, 2020
- General Non-Fiction
Author: David Oakley
Publisher: Carmel Saybrook
ISBN: 978-0-578-75726-1
A Bum Inheritance Contributed to Bookpleasures.com by Joel Samberg
- By Joel Samberg
- Published November 4, 2020
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
As the Crow Flies: The Redemption of an International Drug Smuggler Reviewed by Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published November 3, 2020
- Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Ed Hudson
ISBN: 978-1-943106-55-4Love Between the Covers Contributed to Bookpleasures.com by Joel Samberg
- By Joel Samberg
- Published October 26, 2020
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
This
is a story I think both readers and writers will understand very
well.
Years ago I fell in love with a young woman named Peony—a name at once distinctive, beautiful and poetic, and one I refused to question despite never having met another person so named.
A Mirror for Americans: What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Teaching Students Who Excel Reviewed By Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com
- By Joel Samberg
- Published October 26, 2020
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Cornelius N. Grove
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 978-1-4758-4460-3
Joel Samberg of Bookpleasures.com Talks With Noted New York Psychoanalyst Gibbs Williams, Author of the New Memoir, “Smack in the Middle: My Turbulent Time Treating Heroin Addicts at Odyssey House" About Self-Publishing
- By Joel Samberg
- Published October 22, 2020
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