What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail ….

Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrat….

It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant….

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation..

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become a….

I love the rabbit hole. I spend a lot of time looking at images, Google mapping, etc. I also love to read court transcripts, FBI files, stuff like th….