Ilan Mochari

Ilan Mochari's novel, Zinsky the Obscure (Fomite Press), is now available. He is Chief Writer for The Build Network and a contributor to Cognoscenti, the online magazine for Boston's NPR News Station. Read more about Ilan here.


Articles by Ilan Mochari

West and Schwartz, Dreaming at the Movies

When it comes to 20th-century Jewish authors, it’s Bellow, Roth, and Salinger who generally grab headlines. But their immediate predecessors—Delmore Schwartz and Nathanael ...

A Word on Who I Am

A few months ago I finished Pete Townshend’s autobiography,  Who I Am . I can’t say I was surprised to ...

Not All Autobiographical Elements Are Created Equal

I get this question all the time: How autobiographical is your novel?The book’s style, setting, and protagonist invite the question: ...