Members of the Scribe
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– ...