After parting company with my literary agent several weeks ago, I implemented a new strategy for getting my book — Out of Prague: A Memoir of Survival, Denial, and Triumph — published. Following the example of several other first-time American authors of books dealing with the Second World War and/or the Holocaust, I decided to try to get my…

Everyone else in America is writing about the LeBron James debacle, and I can’t resist chiming in. Up front, I must say that I love basketball too much to be able to watch the game played by today’s National Basketball Association. There was a time — that of Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson,…