I have never been able to be just one thing.

In 1993, a year after graduating college, I began work on a novel, Fables of a Jewish Century, that I intended to be my breathtaking debut as a fiction writer. I took a day job working in the mail room at a hedge fund to support myself as I worked on it.

Instead, that day job turned into a sixteen year Wall Street career, and I had to put the novel on the shelf. But I never stopped writing. I would sit at my desk on the trading floor and noodle ideas for articles, novels and screenplays, thoughts on plays and movies I’d seen or books I’d read.

In 2002, I started self-publishing on my personal blog, which was as eclectic as my interests, and shortly thereafter began getting work published elsewhere. When I left Wall Street shortly after the financial crisis, I enrolled in screenwriting classes at NYU, and since then have devoted myself full time to creative pursuits.

But still, I could never be just one thing.

Since 2010, I have written multiple screenplays, have been on the producing team of four feature films, and have directed two short films and one feature from scripts that I wrote. I have been a political columnist, a film and theater critic and a biblical and Shakespearean exegete.

I’m still doing all of those things. I’ve also gone back to self-publishing through Substack, still writing on as eclectic a collection of topics as interest me. I’ve gone back to the novel, too. I’m even working on a cookbook.

I’m sure there’s something I’m doing that you’d be interested in. Reach out, and let’s find out what it is.