Comedy Trumps Tragedy: A conversation with Stuart Rojstaczer, author of The Mathematician's Shiva

"I’m overeducated and like to tell jokes."  That's how Stuart Rojstaczer begins the About Me page at his website.  That combination of brains and laughter provide the savory broth for his debut novel The Mathematician's Shiva , which hits bookstores at the beginning of September.  Described as "a comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Everything Is Illuminated ," The Mathematician's Shiva is about a ragtag group of academics who descend o...