3 Quotes & Sayings By Peter Manseau

Peter Manseau is the author of the New York Times Best Seller ""The Midnight Disease"", which was chosen by NPR as one of the best books of the year. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Vogue, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, The Huntington, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.
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No other foreskin could have caused such trouble. Peter Manseau
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Hoping to apply what few marketable skills I'd acquired in school, I used my undergraduate's Hebrew to check into options in Israel. I was eager to travel, open to adventure, but as a non- Jew, I found that my possible motives were a cause for concern. In more than one interview I was asked a question that I would eventually hear word for word from Malpesh himself: Are you some sort of missionary? To my prospective employers I tried to explain that if I was to convert anyone it would only be to a nebulous wishy-washy agnosticism, but this honest answer did not earn me many callbacks. Peter Manseau