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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.
She’s spent her whole life learning the horrible things that happen when you turn into a monster. Of course she knows how to become one.
Matthue introduces Hevria's newest project: a novel he wrote called Rules of My Best Friend's Body.
It's such a tempting idea, this sudden mental switch or a realization-from-on-high -- for reasons that are often hard to explain and sometimes so totally otherworldly that you can barely explain them to yourself, let alone write a story about them for other people -- you're a different person than you were before.
Yankel, who used to be Jack, got kicked out of his last club on a Tuesday night.
When you tell a story, you need to erase your memory. Start from the beginning. Walk through the steps with your reader.
We know all each other's secrets. she knows I'm an Orthodox Jew. I know she's a vampire slayer.
I prayed in English this morning. I mostly know what the Hebrew words mean, but my brain needed something simpler, more easily digestible, something I could believe in without asking myself.
We prayed for change. We prayed for things to stay the same. We prayed that G-d do whatever G-d wanted to with us, because we couldn't handle the choices.
Once, Herman Wouk was one of the most famous authors in the world. His work was adapted into plays, films, Broadway musicals, and one of the most-watched TV miniseries ever.
I've written some sketchy things. It's out there. And I'm trying to learn not to be ashamed of them.
