Houston‘s got Jason Alexander, St. Louis has Fran Drescher, Detroit’s got Jack Klugman — who needs TV when our favorite stars are out promoting their new books?

All month long your local JCC is hosting readings, discussions, book groups and more. If you’ve been thinking to yourself, “Hey, I need to unglue myself from this screen and buy a good book to read on a park bench somewhere,” remember, nobody — but nobody — throws a book fair like the People of the Book.

Go. Read.

In other news, Mima’amakim has published its new journal and is celebrating with a grand fête in NYC’s East Village as I write.

I am, of course, nowhere near. But since I did get an acceptance e-mail for my poem “The Big You”, I was actually invited. And that’s really all it takes to make me feel like a real writer.