How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

We are tyrannized by our options.