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Michael Tolkin

Michael Tolkin lives in Los Angeles. His daughter skates for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls. He will hold that accomplishment up against anyone who writes for the London Review of Books.

No Other Gods: Walter Kirn's "My Mother's Bible"

WHEN I WAS 14, after my Reform Bar Mitzvah, I went through confirmation at Temple… call it Temple X. My family wasn’t religious, but I had some inclination, and the rabbi was exciting — he&...

MICHAEL TOLKIN

Remembering Maurice Sendak

MICHAEL TOLKIN Maurice Sendak, My Friend I dedicated my third novel, Under Radar, "For Maurice Sendak, after a long conversation one August afternoon."  That was in 2000. I'd known Maurice for about five years, since writing a script based on ...

DALLAS CLAYTON, MICHAEL TOLKIN, HOWARD A. RODMAN

One Inch Above the Ground

There’s a voice that, while still a bit controlled, opens on to something savage, even ugly....

MICHAEL TOLKIN

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