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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.
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?
I'll try to answer a few questions about the craft of being creative.
The repetition of lifting a weight, no matter how heavy it is, gives you both a sense of purpose and a sense of openness.
In another life, we would've had nothing to do with each other. In this one, this trip was the only thing we had in common.
Everyone gave you advice, especially me. So hard to just say, "I'm sorry your daughter is gone"
