Category: On Writing

  • Researching: The Writer’s Wayward Efforts

    Sometimes I participate in an exercise of futility. Presently I am surfing the immense amount of data on the Holocaust which is beyond anyone’s grasp. In a few weeks I will be making an announcement about the second edition of The i Tetralogy. I’ve waited five years to do that,…

  • Fragment from a Story that is not Working Out

    I raise my hand in cheder and ask the teacher: “Why are jews good at running?” “Because we are excellent prey and what good is prey if it does not give the hunter a good chase for his money?” “Rabbi, people tell me I am a good student. Why have…

  • On Gruffworld — and the Floater

    I have just completed a light edit of the book in manuscript. It is at least 25 years old. It may never see the light of day, all 325 pages or so. it doesn’t work. It doesn’t fly. At the time I tried to bring together my learnings about psychoanalysis…

  • The Skinny on Sojourner

    After writing a book of short stories and a Holocaust fiction, what I write now weighs on me. It reminds me of that writer’s cliche of having to come up to the parity of the first published book; the second novel, I suppose, is a killer. The irony about Sojourner…