Just finished with my writers' group, a collection -- a straining? -- from my master's program. I think when we all decided to meet ...

From LitBooks' Twitter , here is the last page of Proust's In Search of Lost Time . Kind of reassuring to know that, after writing...

So today my kids and I crashed the enviable-but-stuffy Brooklyn College library. We didn't exactly get kicked out, but we definitely got...

Today was long and intense, and almost entirely devoid of adults, and after I put the kids to bed -- we read the last chapters of Baby-Sitte...

Q: Hey Matthue, What do you do when you hate your book? Start from the beginning? Randomly change words here and there? Delete paragrap...

A new-author friend just emailed me to ask about a negative review. (I'm not saying which friend, or which negative review {actually, ...

****   <****@scholastic.com> 5:12 PM (4 minutes ago) to  me Hi, Matthue, I’m afraid we’re o...

Three big things which I should tell you about: First, my new book My First Kafka was officially sent to the printers! That's still a...

Stand back. I'm trying something new. One way or another you guys have ended up here, reading random stuff that I write, either my boo...

Sorry I haven't been writing! Great things are afoot at the day-job, but of course I am not allowed to talk about them. And there are al...

Update: go here to get the actual book! The deal for my new book, My First Kafka: Runaways, Rodents, and Giant Bugs ,  was listed in Pu...

For someone whose life is writing on the Internet,  Patrick Aleph  still has a lot of secrets. Aside from running the alterna-Torah si...

Hey, so HelloGiggles.com featured my new book  Automatic  as their Item of the Day yesterday! Besides being (actress-slash-singer-slash-...

So I wrote this book. It's a short book -- 15,000 words, or about a quarter the size of your average novel. The book's on Kindle ...

I wrote this story. I was sort of saving it for a while, waiting for something big to happen. And then it did. R.E.M. released the album...

Q: What is your favorite book? A: It changes. Right now, either Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson, which I've read a bunch of time...

I promise, I'm not going to turn my blog into a collection of reviews. There are things I really honestly want to tell you about my OWN ...

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a writer named Adi Elbaz . She'd just finished Yom Kippur a Go-Go and wanted to talk to me. Could s...

Today is Bloomsday, named after Leopold Bloom, the main character of James Joyce's Ulysses and patron saint of 21st-century literary sn...

I'm publishing a new book! Well, in a way. Here. First, check out the new teaser site for Enemies : Ready? OK. So here's the st...