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Promowork: A Necessary Evil

This week, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the author. Today, ...

Jews and Anxiety

This past May I published an essay in The New York Times titled “Do the Jews Own Anxiety?” Not long afterward, ...

Focusing Under Pressure

In my last post, I described the technical difficulties that occurred when I appeared on Talk of the Nation earlier this ...

Hearing Voices

I know a little something about hearing voices. My first book,  Muses, Madmen, and Prophets , was about auditory hallucinations ...

The Dangers of Nice

When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...

A Hidden History

Having just spent four years on a book about the biblical manuscript known as the Aleppo Codex, I can say with ...

Codex versus Kindle

Although it fell, in retrospect, at the mid-point between the launch of the Kindle and the Kindle 2, I don’t ...

Dating and Doctors

It was several years ago when my mother went for a flu shot to our family doctor, an avuncular, bearded ...

Who Are Your Characters Really?

It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ...

Recasting a Classic

Francesca Segal’s novel The Innocents is now available. I would never have set out to recast a classic, Pulitzer-winning American novel– ...

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