The author of Stealing the Show on the provocative power of representation, tracing female characters from Mary Tyler Moore to Broad City's Abbi and Ilana, and why it's strange that we still call it television. 

After years struggling with painful vulvodynia, my relationship hit a breaking point. When I finally found help, I had to wonder who I'd be if I had never learned to fear sex.

Searching for where I belong, I find myself cobbling together a sort of mongrel Judaism—half-remembered and syncretic and porous and contradictory and all mine.

It couldn’t happen without effort. Nothing happened without effort, except catastrophe.

I used to laugh at my mother's Russian rituals, but now, I see them as a reminder of a home I'm in danger of forgetting. 

The author of The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore on summer camps, inexplicit racism and the rarity of male authors who can write believable women characters.