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A new edition, a new book, and anniversary fritters

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It’s been a long while since I’ve written, but I have a (semi-) decent explanation: I’m coming in to the end zone on my next book, which will be published by Berkley Books, most likely in autumn of this year. (I’m very happy to also announce that Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the […]

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Take the gun; leave the tefillin.

 This is what I know: The warm, spice-crusted pastrami on thin-sliced rye from Ben’s Best Deli, a few blocks from my childhood apartment in Forest Hills. The tiny black handgun that my father kept buried under his Bar Mitzvah tefillin in the top drawer of his highboy dresser. We grew up together — the pastrami, the gun, and […]

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