Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6, author Jonathan Rosen will be stopping by the Y along with a panel including Dara Horn, Erica Jong, Thane Rosenbaum and Lara Vapnyar to discuss On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish-American Writer.

Over in the New York Times, Rosen just reviewed Harold Bloom’s new book (Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine) and gave it a gushing thumbs-up:

Bloom taught a class called “Counter-Normative Currents in Contemporary Jewish Literature,” which included moderns like Freud, Kafka and Babel but began with “the Yahwist,” author of the oldest strand of the Hebrew Bible. Suddenly, being a Jewish writer wasn’t just for post-Enlightenment Johnny-come-latelies, but an ancient birthright.

And luckily for everyone, Bloom is also stopping by the Y next Monday to pay tribute to Leaves of Grass.