Members of the Scribe

When I was little, I talked to God constantly. There were prayers for waking up, for the morning, for the afternoon, before ...

In 1990, I worked with Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, then the site of the largest refugee population in the ...

When a former ultra-Orthodox Jew publicly reveals her story, she often faces ferocious attacks from her community of origin who will ...

I don’t speak Hebrew and, despite a few semi-earnest attempts to learn my aleph-bet, I don’t read it either. I recognize enough ...

There were two models for motherhood in my sprawling family: my great-great-aunt Riva and my great-grandmother Clara.My great-great-aunt Riva was ...

I look for locations for my stories on CyberRentals and HomeAway. I find the houses described on these websites far ...

Some of the literary works I deal with in Unclean Lips are relatively well-known—Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1935) and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), for ...

One of the points I make in my book is that what’s dirty in Yiddish isn’t always dirty in English, and vice ...

Stephen Dixon is, in my opinion, the best and most overlooked American Jewish fiction writer in the country. If I ...

There’s a little experiment I’d like to try, knowing that this blog post will be published by the Jewish Book ...