Dr. Pies is the author of a collection of short stories (Zimmerman’s Tefillin/PublishAmerica) and a book of poetry (Creeping Thyme/Brandylane Publishers). He is also the author of The Ethics of the Sages: An Interfaith Commentary on Pirke Avot (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), and the upcoming book, Everything Has Two Handles: A Stoic’s Guide to the Art of Living (Hamilton, 2008).