The Uncertainty Principle
With curiosity, compassion and wit, the essays in The Uncertainty Principle introduce the reader to the fundamental patterns of the universe that influence our existence. In What Little Boys are Made Of, the caprices of quantum interactions at the beginning of time initiate a chain of events that lead to the birth of a child. Entanglement addresses the bizarre behavior of subatomic particles that can communicate at a distance, and muses that human beings might be connected in ways we do not understand. In the title essay, a fragile embryo clings to life and its fate is uncertain until the last moment, when mass and energy, time, love and hope combine to reveal the truth.
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An Object of Exquisite Beauty
A literary novel about love, grief, art, and Paris.
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A grieving young American leaves his wife’s funeral to honor her last request: he must return to Paris and find the portraits she painted there. But the paintings are in the possession of their two old lovers who won’t let them go without a fight.
essays & stories
- Duck. Fourth Genre 24.2; November 1, 2022.
- Entanglement. Lumineer Award for Prose (Third Place). The Coil 2017. Alternating Current Press.
- What Little Boys are Made Of. Lumineer Award for Prose (Fourth Place). The Coil 2017. Alternating Current Press.
- The Number You Have Dialed. Wabash Prize for Nonfiction (Runner-Up). Sycamore Review 2017.
- This is Getting Old. The Kindness of Strangers (A Wising Up Anthology), Universal Table Press 2016.
- Tikkun Olam: Common ground between Judaism and the Quaker Faith. The Jewish Advocate, December 2009.
- A View from the Cube. Boston Globe 2009
- Letter from Paris. Harvard Review 5. September 1993