March 21, 2024

[Post-dated addition: This blog post was written before thousands of brave and conscientious students of the United States (including students from Columbia, where I did my MFA (I have written about that experience in my book The Killing of an Author), community leaders and activists around the world, and many conscientious Jews including the astonishingly…

July 27, 2015

I am pleased to announce that, at present, readers may instantly download any of the following books with either a credit/debit card or with Paypal (the financial details are handled by Paypal–the Download program is a WordPress plug-in; and the buyer gets a download link after payment and does it himself/herself; I know nothing about…

July 16, 2013

Two different articles on the Internet have reminded me of the humanity of writers. (I should say: other writers. I am aware of my own humanity each time I look at myself in the mirror.) Kurt Vonnegut, whose books and whose passion for social justice I admire, wrote: “We are what we pretend to be.”…