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I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of... →
I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although... →
I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something... →
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in... →
I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me... →
I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a... →
I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not... →
In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall... →
In the past, I was sometimes put in this women's lit category, and I was never really sure that was the appropriate place for me - although I... →
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really... →
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections... →
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is... →
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is... →