New Door Books

08/31/2026

Tomorrow online @ 3pm ET:

“Humane, sensitive to dissent, and alert to the minutiae of petty politicking, Popkin spotlights a community rent by … issues of identity and ownership.” —Isaac Randel, West Trade Review
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Register here:
https://www.qesher.com/partly-strong-partly-broken/

08/28/2026

Online, 9/1 @ 3 pm ET: Nathaniel Popkin discusses his new novel that "untangles a brutal conundrum with empathy and insight" (Stephanie Feldman) & offers "a thoughtful an ly compassionate examination of the age-old divisions poisoning America’s social contract" (David J. Brown).
https://www.qesher.com/partly-strong-partly-broken/

08/14/2026

At the Philly Book Crawl, 8/22, meet prolific author Nathaniel Popkin @ Head House Books, 12-2.

He will autograph copies of his new novel, PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN, "a thoughtful and deeply compassionate examination of the age-old divisions poisoning America’s social contract in the 21st century."

08/12/2026

Feeling under the weather?

(Almost literally?)

Our authors have suggestions, "Cool Reads for Hot Weather":

https://newdoorbooks.net/so/e7P-T7Uha?languageTag=en&cid=687856dd-7e2f-4ae8-a234-f42c5e31288b

08/11/2026

For the Philly Book Crawl on 8/22, meet prolific author Nathaniel Popkin at Head House Books, 619 S. 2nd Street, from noon to 2:00.

He will be autographing copies of his new novel, PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN.

07/21/2026

5-star Amazon review for PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN, which another reviewer called "a thoughtful and deeply compassionate examination of the age-old divisions poisoning America’s social contract."

At a time when "community" sounds like an archaic word, this is a must-read.

More about the novel here:

https://www.newdoorbooks.net/partly-strong-partly-broken

07/10/2026

Israeli & Jewish writers shut out?
We won't accept that.

Our publisher writes, "It's a tribute to our Editorial Board that they weren't scared off by a topic too hot to handle, one that can't get through an editorial meeting at a typical publishing house."

We went ahead and published Nathaniel Popkin's novel PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN, and it's doing well. It's provoking discussion, which was the author's intention. It's building community instead of tearing people apart.

Read the full article from PEN here:
https://pen.org/a-silent-moratorium-interviews-with-israeli-and-jewish-writers/

Read about the novel here:
https://www.newdoorbooks.net/partly-strong-partly-broken

07/10/2026

Cool master classes next week from !

Gotta register by MONDAY.

https://www.bluestoop.org/classes

07/09/2026

On the NOVELIST SPOTLIGHT podcast, Nathaniel Popkin explains how the Hamas attack on Israel, 10/7/23, changed his novel PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN:

“Rabbi Adinah took over more space…more melancholy, more tragedy, and more love.”

He also notes that the novel discusses “something that most rabbis would not talk about in America.”

The aim: “a page-turner that the reader could really invest in…a bit of catharsis.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkRHjOP41Gc

In the spotlight is Nathaniel Popkin, author of the new novel Partl...

07/03/2026

This headline from Authors Against Book Bans sure grabbed our attention.

Our government is insane.

https://mailchi.mp/9fba9d88df49/looking-back-and-looking-ahead-12755554?e=f2acd36605