Better Than a Birthday

In honor of the publication of my story “Mitzvah” in The New Yorker, a few words about how incredible this experience is for an uncool writer like me | Non-Fiction | Canned soup

Almost as fun as publishing a story in The New Yorker

Now that we know each other a little better, I feel I can come clean: short-story writers are the lepers of the literary world. While novelists dream of winning a Nobel or a Booker, essayists have visions of waking up to find they’ve turned into Malcolm Gladwell or Yuval Noah Harari, and poets fantasi…