Members of the Scribe

My mother always told us she could do magic. And though my sisters and I were modern children of the ...

The one thing that has really shocked me about my new book is how Jewish it is.I’m a nonobservant Jew, ...

  “I didn’t think he’d do it. I really didn’t think he would.” That’s how I open my book, with ...

Many people ask me, “What’s a nice guy like you doing in a field like this?” By which they mean: ...

In my novel,  Margot , I reimagine Margot Frank, Anne’s older sister, having survived the war and come to Philadelphia where ...

My grandfather was a  Kohen , which I’ve learned (thanks to Google) means he was a Jewish priest, a descendant ...

In my late teens, when the Air Supply song “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,” was popular, I developed ...

When I was writing my memoir, which is sort of a chronicle of all my failed love relationships, each morning when ...

A few weeks ago I was asked to give a keynote address at a middle school. My ever-proud Jewish mother ...

For the past eight summers, I’ve taught creative writing at the Paris American Academy, a small school in a neighborhood ...