Gordon Haber

Writer, editor, mediocre guitarist

Five Gordon Haber Facts That Will Blow Your Mind!

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!

 

Greetings New Visitors

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.

Recent Journalism and Fictioning!

I’m the handsome one in the foreground.

 

Journalism

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

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.

 

New Writings on Religion and American Cuture

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.

This Is Nice

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


Some Interesting Stuff I Wrote to Read and Enjoy Before the GOP Tax Bill Reduces Us All to Foraging for Food

  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.

Excellent Ways to Spend Your Time and Money This November

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.

Literary Selfie: Fall 2017

But hey it’s not about the money

 

Here’s what I am up to this fall:

Reading!

Writing!

Shilling my book!

Literary Selfie: Spring 2017 (aka Even a Time of National Crisis Can’t Distract Me from My Careerist Self-Absorption)

LABAlive presents Two : Others ©2017 Basil Rodericks faceitfoto.com

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!

Reading!

Teaching!

Promoting!

Weirdness!

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

 

New Story Collection Coming Soon!

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

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