Last week I was performing, and then there was a Q&A session afterward -- which is always kind of weird; I feel like I should be the one...

I'm not sure if I wrote this as a dare for her, or as a dare for myself. Got invited to see @JoyceCarolOates at the same time as I ha...

This is where I walked today: View Larger Map Mill Basin is one of those places that makes you say, "I can't believe this is Br...

I had the closest thing I'm probably going to get to a Kafka release party at this otherworldly party called Chulent. If you'...

So a few weeks ago I stumbled across this weird video . It's a fashion show from the '80s, a Jean-Paul Gaultier collection featuring...

Here's where I get all confessional: I kind of hate New York City. Don't get me wrong--I love living near a zillion cousins-in-law...

Maybe it's the fact that all the Israelis I knew growing up were seriously cute girls (Orali in fourth grade, I'm looking at you ), ...

This morning I got an email from my friend Dugans (of the awesome band Dreams in Static ) asking, "Hey, isn't that you on some rand...

There are deadlines, and then there are deadlines. I'm the Writer in Residence this month over at BrooklynTheBorough.com , and I was sup...

I wasn't dreaming of a white Purim , but that's what we got. Saturday night, Shabbat went out, and I shoveled out our car in raver ...

Granted, it's not me writing Uncanny X-Men , but it's on the other side of the camera. It's from Ethan Young's excellent e-c...

What do you look for in an etrog ? It was hard to top last year , but we had to try. Heshy Fried and I went on a fact-finding mission in the...

One of the most encyclopedic Web collections I've seen recently was created, ironically, to put to rest a supposition that I've neve...

Someone driving through our part of Brooklyn honked at Itta and I, waving us over from the sidewalk. "What's going on?" she sa...