I’m usually a lonely Jew on Christmas. Last year, I found community on Twitter.
For the first time in years, I had (virtual) company on the holiday.
Reporting
Fallik left full-time reporting in 2007. Her freelance work has appeared in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine, Neurology Today, Poynter Institute and others. Fallik has written a series of author Q and As for the Inquirer, including Louise Erdrich, Diane Rehm, Erik Larson, Ann Patchett, and Wally Lamb. Her favorite interview was with “Little Life” author Hanya Yanagihara, who talked about the American “tyranny of happiness.” Asked if she, herself, was happy, Yanagihara replied, “I’m content, and that’s sometimes.”
Meta-Analysis: Medical Marijuana Offers Mild Relief for Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms and Is Safe—Mostly
A meta-analysis of 17 randomized, placebo-controlled trials found that medical marijuana provided mild relief from such multiple sclerosis symptoms as spasticity, pain, and bladder dysfunction. …
What’s the most embarrassing way you’ve ever injured yourself?
Louis Greenstein was 28 and working as an extra in a friend’s movie in rural Pottsville, Pa. There was a lot of waiting around, and …
Q&A: Leaping over the ‘author wall’ with Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb, author of books such as I Know This Much Is True, She’s Come Undone, and The Hour I First Believed
Q&A with Ann Patchett: A sneaky riptide of wild
Ann Patchett’s writing is all charm and grace and soothing. Here we are at a party. We’re celebrating a new birth. Everyone is hanging out …
Louise Erdrich brings ‘LaRose’ to the Free Library
Louise Erdrich’s writing speaks softly and carries a big stick. She doesn’t shy away from challenging issues – death, rape, murder. But her characters and their story lines are so layered and complex the darkness draws readers into her suspenseful dilemmas.
Erik Larson on the search for new things to write about
When author Erik Larson started research for his latest book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, about the 1915 sinking of the luxury ocean liner, he wasn’t expecting many surprises. As with the Titanic, everyone knows the ending: Almost 1,200 passengers died when a German submarine torpedoed the ship off the coast of Ireland.