Members of the Scribe

When I started looking through the extensive and awe-inspiring Visiting Scribe archives, one theme kept popping out at me: the perennial ...

In 2011, I was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Thanks to this honor, I was invited ...

So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book,  Stations West , was about ...

People ask me how much research I had to do on art forgery for my new book  A Nearly Perfect ...

The Mothers is the first book I’ve written that does not primarily consist of Jewish characters. It’s a little weird that ...

The Mothers  is my third novel but it’s the first novel I’ve written that tracks so closely with my own ...

Hey, I have a question for you: How important is it for you to identify as a Jew? As a ...

In New York City, in our Upper West Side apartment, my little brother and I watched my father act out ...

It seems to me that it’s hard for a feeling, empathetic person to know where to place himself in the ...

Quite recently, someone asked me about my “process.” This someone wasn’t asking about the creative parts—the meandering through the dark, ...

I needed something. Everyone was dying. Or at least a lot of people were dying and it felt like everyone ...

I am bored to death, dying of starvation and on the brink of losing my mind at Passover dinner at my father’s ...