It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to …

- Tod Goldberg

So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did wr…

- Tod Goldberg

I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means to sacrifice, but mostly…

- Tod Goldberg

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

- Tod Goldberg

Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's…

- Tod Goldberg

I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously mu…

- Tod Goldberg

I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of w…

- Tod Goldberg

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native A…

- Tod Goldberg

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

- Tod Goldberg