fiction

This is a guest post by Andrew Tertes, the author of Jacob’s Return. He is blogging here today for Jewish ...

I have always been fascinated by epigraphs — those borrowed words that authors choose to introduce and encapsulate the message ...

German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He ...

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

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. ...

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 ...

Franz Kafka was a man who struggled with his many contradictions. Although his writing has come to be intensively studied, as ...