Tod Goldberg on what it means to be a Jew
Tod Goldberg is a cohost of the podcast Literary Disco. He is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including The Low Desert (named a Southwest Book of the Year) Gangsterland (a finalist for the Hammet Prize), Gangster Nation, Living Dead Girl (a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), and the popular Burn Notice series, three times a finalist for the Scribe Award. His books have been published in a dozen languages. He is also the founding director of the MFA program at the University of California, Riverside. Tod tells Gabe about what his grandfather, who just barely survived the pogroms in Ukraine, taught him about being Jewish. This interview is a portrait of the writer as a wild big-hearted force of nature.
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