Funny Girl: A Novel

Several summers ago, I rented a cabin in the Catskills for a weekend. It was perched on a hill in middle of nowhere—the nearest grocery store was 15 miles away and staffed by very suspicious locals—and decorated in high rustic style, with musty wool blankets and lamps made out of antlers. Best of all, it had a record […]

Fiction is fiction and nonfiction is nonfiction, and in case you get those mixed up, fiction is the “not real one” and nonfiction is “the real one.” Those lines can get blurred, however, when a real-life person from the real world shows up for a little while in what is otherwise a not-true story. It’s […]

As a young man or young woman, your thoughts are overwhelmingly consumed by crushes. This is likely some kind of combination of the newness of the world and the thrill of exploration…and hormones. So many hormones raging all of the time. For some of us, this means constantly falling in “love,” with classmates, with celebrities, […]