He is also a musician and the author of a memoir, The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments; a novel, Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World that is Heartbroken, which was the winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel; and a creativity retreat book, Wild Heart Dancing. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Shari Cordon, and their three cats.