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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.
I always expected to get rescued, not to do the rescuing.
For thirteen years I never knew not to wear a tallis.
sometimes i walk down the street doing nothing but being stared at.
She’d see someone and say, ‘He looks like a really interesting character. I want to meet him.' And she did.
Plot is taking all the things that don’t make sense about your story, and forcing them to make sense.
Maxwell Bauman's irreverent humor caters to Jews who appreciate irreverent weirdness.
When you want to write straight out of your heart that keeps all that passion and fire and rawness and fragility intact, it's a good thing to tell yourself, I'm not doing this to make money.
The religious stuff, the Holocaust stuff, the passing inclusion of an oy — they’re all a part of the story, but are they the story?
How do we know that we're writing something good, and not just tossing words on a page?