Reporting from NEW YORK — Shalom Auslander lives in a bubble, and he likes it that way, thank you very much. On a bitterly cold February afternoon, the creator of the new Showtime series “Happyish” ...

Writer Shalom Auslander discusses his much-anticipated new memoir, “Foreskin’s Lament,” and how he’s cut back on giving God the finger – at least physically. WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (JTA) – Shalom Auslander ...

FEH: A Memoir. By Shalom Auslander. Riverhead Books. 368 pages. $29. A few years ago, the writer Shalom Auslander was hospitalized with a potentially fatal case of pancreatitis after taking a banned ...

Shalom Auslander’s memoir, “Foreskin’s Lament,” chronicled the author’s shaky departure from his dysfunctional ultra-Orthodox home in Monsey, New York. Readers will recall how Auslander was somehow ...

Anyone who knows Shalom Auslander’s work knows he is haunted by the past — both his own personal past and the collective Jewish one. But for the sake of potential new readers, he is making this fact ...

Shalom Auslander has a problem with authority. At least, that’s what he wants you to think. I knew this going in to our meeting and was a bit nervous. He had been promoting his new novel, Hope: A ...

Shalom Auslander is not the most upbeat guy in the world. Ask if he’s happy, and his response tells you all you to need to know: “My wife and my kids. I’m afraid of them dying all the time. I can’t ...