Tod Goldberg's 'Gangsters Don't Die' concludes the series of 'desert noir' featuring a fake rabbi — and the very real spiritual journey that led him there.
Fiction from Zadie Smith, Yiyun Li and Jesmyn Ward, memoirs from Sly Stone and Werner Herzog and a bio of Elon Musk are among the fall’s most anticipated books.Nevertheless, the fake rabbi had to emerge from a real place. So Goldberg set out to learn his ancestral history and discovered that his mother’s parents left Bar, in present-day Ukraine, in 1919, just before the Russians killed all the Jews there. All the members of the family who stayed behind were killed.
It’s not that surprising, then, that Sal Cupertine sounds a lot like Tod Goldberg, especially when he’s posing as Rabbi David Cohen. “We share a lot of similar beliefs,” Goldberg admitted. “I don’t typically feel this way — fiction is fiction — but there’s a lot of me in that character. I’m not a violent person, but his point of view on the world, about the way organized crime has wormed its way into every aspect of our lives, those are my beliefs too.”“Gangsterland” and “Gangster Nation” kicked off the desert noir series by Tod Goldberg that concludes with “Gangster’s Don’t Die.
Perhaps this explains Goldberg’s willingness to make enemies online by calling out bad behavior on social media platforms, especially when it’s from people in power. Like when he challenged Indio City Councilman and former Mayor
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