In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, 'Feh', the writer recounts his unique friendship with the late Oscar winner Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — Shalom Auslander lives in a bubble, and he likes it that way, thank you very much. On a bitterly cold February afternoon, the creator of the new Showtime series “Happyish” ...

FEH: A Memoir. By Shalom Auslander. Riverhead Books. 368 pages. $29. A few years ago, the writer Shalom Auslander was hospitalized with a potentially fatal case of pancreatitis after taking a banned ...

Writer Shalom Auslander discusses his much-anticipated new memoir, “Foreskin’s Lament,” and how he’s cut back on giving God the finger – at least physically. WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (JTA) – Shalom Auslander ...

Shalom Auslander’s memoir, “Foreskin’s Lament,” chronicled the author’s shaky departure from his dysfunctional ultra-Orthodox home in Monsey, New York. Readers will recall how Auslander was somehow ...

Anyone who knows Shalom Auslander’s work knows he is haunted by the past — both his own personal past and the collective Jewish one. But for the sake of potential new readers, he is making this fact ...

Shalom Auslander is not the most upbeat guy in the world. Ask if he’s happy, and his response tells you all you to need to know: “My wife and my kids. I’m afraid of them dying all the time. I can’t ...

Shalom Auslander has a problem with authority. At least, that’s what he wants you to think. I knew this going in to our meeting and was a bit nervous. He had been promoting his new novel, Hope: A ...

There’s a fundamental and perhaps fundamentally irresolvable tension at the heart of Shalom Auslander’s first novel, “Hope: A Tragedy” — the tension between text and context, or between the artist and ...