Matthue Roth

Matthue Roth is the author, most recently, of Losers, as well as the novels Never Mind the Goldbergs and Candy in Action and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go. He's also the associate editor of MyJewishLearning.com. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, and he keeps a secret diary at www.matthue.com.

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DeScribe: Homeland-Grown Gangsta for Peace

When hip-hop audiences talk about being born into the game, they don’t usually mean like…

Diwon is to Yemenite music as Pharrell is to Gwen

Diwon is the newest in the litany of identities of Erez Safar, the producer/drummer/promoter/DJ/occasional backup…

Formerly Homeless Anti-Folkie Emilia Cataldo Talks About Her New Album

One-woman band Emilia Cataldo’s e-mail signature says "I want to end up happy like everyone…

Barbez Frontman Adds Experimental Music to Paul Celan’s Post-Holocaust Poetry

Avant-garde musician Dan Kaufman fronts the band Barbez, who play a tangled and compelling web…

Jewcy Music: Make Y-Love Sound Better

Remix contests, when done right, can be the coolest things in the world (ultra-hipster warning:…

The Shondes: Queer, Pro-Palestinian Jewish Punk Rock

The Shondes are the newest product of Brooklyn’s cross-section of Jewish and hipster culture, merging…

Happy New Tree: A Tu B’Shevat Prayer

From the Izhbitzer Rebbe, this little bit of excerptage comes to us by way of…

Shomer Negiah in the City

It was the summer I left San Francisco. I’d gotten a book deal, gotten hardcore…