Ilan Mochari's Pushcart-nominated debut novel, Zinsky the Obscure (Fomite Press, 2013), has earned rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Boston's NPR station listed it as one of its ten "Good Reads for the Summer." The book was also featured in the Boston Globe's Word on the Street column. In 1997, he earned a B.A. in English from Yale University. He used it to wait tables for nine years in the Boston area.
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free. – James Joyce, “Araby” I was the boy who sat far from the lake with a sketchbook on his lap while the other kids swam and splashed and horsed around in the water. Sometimes, when the counselors… Read more →