1–What is the title of your latest release? RAVAGE & SON 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Ravage & Son combines the cinematic vitality of Gangs of New York with the darkness of a Jewish Jack the Ripper. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The Lower East Side was a special place to me, it’s where my parents came from – it’s my spiritual home. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I would be too frightened. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Brave, foolish, loveable 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned about a special police force on the Lower East Side called the Kehilla, formed by the Jewish elite to secretly fight Jewish crime.  No one remembers it.  Even the Jewish Society of the NYPD didn’t know about it.  It’s a fascinating lost piece of Jewish-American history. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I edit all the time, while I’m writing and after I finish a first draft.  In some ways you’re never really finished with a book. It’s very perverse. You really write while…