I mentioned on Twitter today that my favorite Japanese monster was Gamera, the giant turtle with inexplicable rocket engines for flying. Unable to remember the story of Gamera, I went…
Having grown up with almost no children’s books in the home, it has been an unexpected joy to read these classics for the first time with my daughter. I would…
Yesterday I was grateful for poker, which I described as the perfect game. Tonight I am grateful for golf, the almost perfect game. I played today thanks to a spat…
In the wake of Jodi Picoult’s exceptionally generous blurb comes this one from Carol Kranowitz, a teacher, a leader in the autism community and the bestselling author of The Out-of-Sync…
Tonight I am grateful for poker. It is a perfect game. It creates an environment in which a group of players attempt to extract money from one another by utilizing…
In a recent meeting with the sales, publicity and marketing team of my publisher, St. Martin’s Press, I was asked about the decision to publish in the UK under the…
I recently told a story onstage as part of a joint venture between The Story Collider and the New York Academy of Sciences. It’s a story about my high school biology…
Tonight I am grateful that my wife is not the woman who was sitting behind me during last night’s Second City performance, failing to hear about a third of the…
St. Patrick’s Day would have been my mother’s 62nd birthday. She passed away in 2007. Losing a mother is never easy. Losing one so early in life is especially hard.…
