I steal names. You should know this, first of all, if you want to be friends with me (or friends of friends, or one-night drinking buddies...

I was out to breakfast with my brother-in-law, who told me he really liked my latest Hevria piece. I thanked him, then immediately regretted...

The last girl I danced with was my Aunt Et. It was my sister's wedding. She was 98. Aunt Et was, not my sister. I'd spent most of th...

Okay, this is a big time for Jupiter. Next week, there's a new Jupiter story coming out -- chapter two of Enemies ,  the sequel to Loser...

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...

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

The new PresenTense magazine is out, and with it is a review of Losers that's more like a critical analysis. I didn't know this wa...

How Jews Pray , the third in our "How Jews..." series, checks out what Jews are talking about -- from an Australian Jew in New Yor...

Last night, the Orthodox Union called me in a frizzle -- they wanted to run an article on Inauguration. Did I have anything to say? Could I...

Briefly: I'm going to be performing tomorrow at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia! Opening for the retro-Catskills lounge comedy band Goo...

A reader wrote in, asking me to post this article , which is the most complete account I've found so far of the siege against the Mumbai...

This was actually a pretty cool interview. Me: Can you tell us a little bit about Losers , the book, not the people? Matthue: Basically, my ...

The wonderful Alex DiFiori made a great poster for the Saturday show. Go here to see the original graphic, print out a zillion copies of t...

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, speaking at last night's Jewish Publication Society 120th Anniversary Banquet, could not constrain h...

liz: Keith Olbermann last night declared Dennis Prager yesterday's "worst person." And the Phillies won the World Series. C...