David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar. His books include Baddies (2009), Narrative Faith (2017), and an edited collection of stories for children, In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times (2018). He lives in Jerusalem.
Chapter 1: Prologue: Depths and Shallows.- 2: Love and Intimacy.- Chapter 3: Death and Tragedy.- Chapter 4: Idiocy and Irony.- Chapter 5: IDIOT LOVE.- Chapter 6: Anxiety and Wisdom.- Chapter 7: Epilogue: Narcissus and Cassandra.