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Matthue Roth's new picture book is The Gobblings. He also wrote Never Mind the Goldbergs and a bunch of other books without pictures. By day, he writes games for Google. He lives in Brooklyn and keeps a secret diary at matthue.com.
On how getting married and having children causes a natural rebel to change. And who knows, maybe even grow.
I don't want to be ashamed of anything I write. But I also don't want to write anything I'd be ashamed of, and I am.
Shlomo Carlebach said that gentiles tell stories to put themselves to sleep; Jews tell stories to wake themselves up.
It was funny, it was tricky, but there was also wisdom in there. I feel like that day, I learned something about being Orthodox, something important and fundamental, that I hadn't ever known before.
Like Harry Potter, he showed us that we were special, not because we were born with this secret legacy, being Jewish, but because of what we chose to do with it.
1. I went to my friend’s sukkah. He’s the last person I expected to be legit now. He was always doing crazy things: sleeping in line overnight in the hope of getting on Australian Idol*, running into Liza Minelli at a piano bar and dueting with her. We were friends when I first...
Matthue Roth reviews the Benjamin Stein novel "The Canvas."
"Because I am totally nuts, but I can make it sound reasonably like a joke. It might even be a joke? I can't even tell myself anymore."
I think that's why I started making up stories. Because I wanted to read something, and the story I wanted to read didn't exist.
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