Buy me!

1. You can buy his book!
2. He teaches at the School of the New York Times!
3. He runs the micropress Dutch Kills Press!
4. He writes about religion for various online magazines!
5. He tweets here, and occasionally his jokes are funny!

Yusuf (Joseph) reunited with his father Ya’qub (Jacob)

I checked analytics for the first time in months, and to my surprise there’s been a spike in visitors. Welcome! About me:

• I write about religion and culture for various magazines. Here’s my latest piece for the Forward on a fascinating exhibition on the strong connections between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
• I am the author of the story collection Uggs for Gaza.
• This summer I will be teaching creative writing, among other things, at the School of the New York Times.
• I run the micropublishing company Dutch Kills Press.
• I am not the wolf expert Gordon Haber who died in a plane crash in Alaska.

I’m the handsome one in the foreground.

Journalism

For the Jewish Chronicle, a UK newspaper, I wrote about:

• Richard Meier’s open-robe trick,
• the “globalist” term,
• and the Illinois Congressional candidate who is also a Holocaust denier.

Fictioning 

• I was lucky enough to read and be interviewed on The Other Stories, Ilana Masad’s killer podcast,
• I was awarded my second(!) Queens Arts Fund grant to work on my novel-in-progress,
• and my story collection, Uggs for Gaza, is as ever available on Amazon.

I’ve been quite busy in 2018 — working on some new fiction about the Korean War and digging up new material for Dutch Kills Press. Below I’ve collected links my most recent nonfiction on religion in my beautiful crazypants country.

• Here is my piece dissecting evangelical support for Donald Trump. (Spoiler alert: it’s easier to understand if you accept that it’s devoid of logic.)
• This is my response to the legal scholar who took issue with my piece about the Museum of the Bible. It’s fascinating that so many of the responses to my MOTB piece take issue with arguments that I never made.
• This is my review of Waco, the Paramount miniseries on the violent demise of David Koresh.

The nice people at Commaful have selected this very website as one of the Top Author Websites of 2017! A lovely unexpected surprise.

1. For Religion & Politics, I interviewed the authors of Bible Nation, a new book about the Green family and their Hobby Lobby shenanigans.
2. Then for the Forward, I went to D.C. and checked out the Greens’ new Museum of the Bible. (Spoiler alert: they got a lot wrong.)
3. My story collection UGGS FOR GAZA is for sale here. People tell me it makes a great holiday gift.

Come to a Reading!

Every time you buy one an angel gets his wings

November 7 at 8pm: Belated Book Party at Quimby’s NYC
Wine, cheese and prose at a beautiful independent bookstore.
536 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11211

November 15th at 7.30pm: Guerrilla Lit Reading Series at Dixon Place
With Mylène Dressler and Victoria Redel.
161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

Buy a New Story!

Even if you hate it (which you won’t) it’s only 99¢

Something is amiss on the sylvan campus of Fortas College, where the faculty is literally and figuratively getting the axe. But this time the “final girl” — Dr. Gwen Alexander, adjunct instructor — takes matters (and weapons) into her own hands. Trigger warning! This short story contains violence, strong language, and college administrators.

Hear Smart People Talking About Books!

Also I highly recommend you check out The Seventh-Day: Israeli Literature Fifty Years After the Six-Day War. The 14th St Y, in collaboration with the Jewish Book Council, has set up a fascinating series that discusses the volatile nature of Israeli society and its literature fifty years after its shortest of many wars. The mastermind behind the series of the brilliant editor Hanan Elstein.  For free tickets register here.

But hey it’s not about the money

Here’s what I am up to this fall:

Reading!

• September 29th at the Platform Art Fair in Brooklyn.
• November 15th, Guerrilla Lit at Dixon Place.

Writing!

• Uncle Oatmeal, a short story, was published in Killing the Buddha.
• I wrote about trying (and failing) to get Portuguese citizenship for Kveller.

Shilling my book!

• UGGS FOR GAZA (AND OTHER STORIES), is available for purchase online here.
• and in Brooklyn at Word and Quimby’s.
• and in Queens at the 51st Bakery & Cafe and Matted LIC.
• and in Manhattan at Book Culture.

Kids today are so entitled, amirite? [Photo: ©2017 Basil Rodericks]

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As usual, I am aware that in these difficult times, so many of you lie awake, staring at the ceiling and asking yourself, “What is Gordon Haber up to?” Rest easy, because here’s your answer:

Writing!

• I wrote about The Handmaid’s Tale for Religion & Politics.
• I wrote about My Scientology Movie for Religion Dispatches.
• I wrote about The Grateful Dead for Killing the Buddha.
• I wrote about trying to get Portuguese citizenship for Kveller.

Reading!

• In March, I read from unpublished work at the 14th Street Y’s LABA Live.
• On April 12th, I read at Alewife in LIC with the Oh Bernice! reading series.

Teaching!

• Here’s a video of me discussing what I will doing for the New York Times Summer Academy.
• I spoke about Citizenship and the Jewish Question at the 14th Street Y.

Promoting!

• The JTA urged readers to check out my story collection, Uggs for Gaza.
• I was interviewed about the book over at Religion Dispatches.

Weirdness!

• In FORUM: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty a PhD student wrote an academic critique of this very blog.

(Psst: It hasn’t been officially released but it’s available on Amazon)