Members of the Scribe

When a modern audience thinks of American Indians and American Jews, the image that comes to mind is likely to be ...

When you do anything creative – from writing stories to hooking rugs – people are likely to ask you where ...

Row 1: Adelaide Herrmann, magician and wife of Alexander Herrmann | Alexander Herrmann, the great magician and Julius’ cousin | ...

Gerald Kolpan‘s newest book, Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World’s Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, ...

These days, when people write a book, they invariably have an acknowledgments page, where they thank a few people or–like ...

Should I show my husband my work? My sister? My mother? Students sometimes ask me this. Go ahead, I say. ...

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

Several years ago at a writing conference, I was listening to a panel of agents and editors talk about how ...

I have been a writer for my whole adult life. I have only been a mother for five months. Like many ...

Maybe there are four or five people on earth for whom writing is effortless and never heartbreaking. I don’t know ...

Have you ever been ‘bageled’?“Bageling” is: the conscious act – or speech – of a non-obviously looking Jewish individual to ...

Yesterday a man came to see me for an appointment. As he came in to the office he asked me, ...