Molly Antopol

As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, a ...

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a bi ...

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first ...

I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed m ...

I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big p ...

I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle p ...

One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other t ...

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama th ...

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there wer ...

In terms of the Eastern Europe stories, my family is originally from there; even as a kid, it was th ...

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything ...

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves ...

It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous ab ...

The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaki ...

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely grati ...