Shalom Auslander’s stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and Esquire, and his essays on This American Life have prompted more email than any contributor since David Sedaris. Auslander is author of the story collection Beware of God, nominated for the Koret Foundation’s Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award. Foreskin’s Lament is Auslander’s memoir of growing up in a troubled Orthodox Jewish family and deciding whether or not to circumcise his son.