Stories, Essays, and Interviews Online
"The Eleventh Happiest Country" in New England Review. "Roi's old friend from the army, Tal, had been an actor before he got religious and now he wanted to make another film and wanted Roi to do it. An action flick. Tal checked with his rebbe in B'nai Brak and it was all right."
"Sisters of Mercy" in Bellevue Literary Review, Editor's Pick. "The surgeon came into the O.R. chewing gum. This was how we knew there’d be a problem. It wasn't the gum but what it was meant to disguise. We're not talking bad breath."
"Beautiful Souls" in Colorado Review, Winner of the Nelligan Prize. "They were two American girls, Abby and Jennifer, best friends, sixteen and not entirely naive, wandering the Arab shuk in Jerusalem's Old City."
“The Book of Splendor" in Ascent. A Distinguished Story in the 2018 Best American Short Stories Anthology. "The education of the exceptionally promising begins early and ends almost never, and this Nathan Berditchev understood long before the age of twelve when, one muggy night in the cramped Berditchev living room over glasses of tea and slices of stiff sponge cake, the rabbis of the Yeshiva of Eastern Queens informed his parents that he, Nathan, had certain gifts."
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Just Tell It: On the Pitfalls of Show, Don't Tell. A dispatch from Hugo House.
The Case For A Strong Narrator. A dispatch from Hugo House. Where am I? Giving Your Work A Sense of Place. A dispatch from Hugo House. When your best hours are midnight to 5 AM. A post on Alive on the Shelves.
"Eager To Hear Voices Ringing Off The Page." An interview at Fiction Writer’s Review.
How far will people go in the name of a cause? An interview with writer and critic Carolyn Leavitt.
“I’m one of those writers who gropes her way into a story." An interview with Biblioklept.
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"Bus" in Bellevue Literary Review. Runner-up Goldenberg Prize for Fiction.
"I waited for the bus this morning at the stop I was told to use by the
people I was supposed to meet at the university. We were going to talk
about a paper I'd written years before, when I lived in California."
"The Innocent" on JewishFiction.Net. "My father calls to me from the
other end of the apartment, his voice thin and urgent. Nowadays everything
is thin and urgent, life paring itself down to the essentials."
"I waited for the bus this morning at the stop I was told to use by the
people I was supposed to meet at the university. We were going to talk
about a paper I'd written years before, when I lived in California."
"The Innocent" on JewishFiction.Net. "My father calls to me from the
other end of the apartment, his voice thin and urgent. Nowadays everything
is thin and urgent, life paring itself down to the essentials."
