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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.
“G-d needs us to believe in Him,” Rev. Vince extols us, “just like you need someone to believe in you.”
Tsivia was the girl all the boys wanted to tease, then wanted to marry, then could never find the courage to talk to.
It's not until way into the night, when the summer sun is completely gone and the sky has finally settled into blackness, that Zvi's dad emerges from the storeroom.
Every inch of the store serves him with a different memory.
Matthue Roth tells us about his children's book, "The Gobblings," and how it was inspired by a story told by the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism.
Sometimes it's just so good to go to the bathroom. Not the act itself, but the act of leaving behind the world and making yourself alone.
This morning I caused a traffic jam. Walked in front of a car on my lazy Brooklyn street, didn't realize there was a car behind that, and another one.
I'd spent the better part of a year traveling to L.A., writing my novel about a teenage Orthodox girl who got her own television show. It was half wish fulfillment, half daring myself to achieve that nightmare.
He'd spent his whole life aimed to land here, in Israel, on the streets of Jerusalem. And now that he was here, he wondered what he was doing.
The day makes everything familiar; night falls and we're uneasy about what's lurking in the shadows, what unknown fears might be lurking near our homes, but it also lures us to sleep.
