A Neighborhood for Ice Cream
A roundup of our five favorite ice cream purveyors in the East Village, Lower East Side, and NoLita.
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Richard Lachmann’s 2015 Dining in Lisbon
Reviews of innovative, traditional, and specialized Lisbon restaurants, along with dessert places including an unexpected reunion.
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A Star for Translation
The advance reviews of the book I translated from Portuguese, The World in a Second, have delivered a huge thumbs up and my first starred review ever.
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What? Is This a Joke?
The work of my friend Beverly Slapin leads to a discussion of humor and satire and the importance of dialogue rather than censorship.
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Cybils Update: The Osmosis Strategy of Writing
An update on my work as a first-round panelist for the 2014 Cybils YA Fiction category and what I have learned for my own writing.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
