Members of the Scribe

The idea for Too Many Latkes! came from one of my fondest childhood memories. My mother was the office manager ...

The memory of my cousin handing me my first copy of MAD Magazine when I was 12 is still fresh in ...

Michael Weingrad made something of a splash last year in writing “Why There is no Jewish Narnia” at the Jewish ...

Being compared to Philip K. Dick is great, especially when they secretly mean “will die a penniless paperback writer at ...

I might be obsessed with historical figures. Maybe it’s a Jewish thing. But my two most recent books were Osama ...

Yesterday, I put out a Twitter call: What should I write about? The always-dependable dlevy asked, in reply, “have you ...

As a glutton for torture (and as a recent parent, which is kind of the same thing), I’ve been taking ...

Here’s the thing about being both an author and a blogger: It makes you impatient. When I write a rant ...

One of my main goals in writing The Inquisitor’s Apprentice was to bring the Lower East Side to life for ...

On Monday, Chris Moriarty wrote about why she wrote The Inquisitor’s Apprentice. She will be blogging here all week for ...

When I try to explain why I wrote The Inquisitor’s Apprentice — and why it’s emphatically not a Jewish Narnia ...

Earlier this week, Anna Solomon wrote for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning about Jews in the West and a grandmother’s secrets. Her ...