DJ Mendel
DJ Mendel is an actor, playwright, screenwriter and director born and raised in Pennsylvania and who has worked extensively with theater-maker Richard Foreman, filmmaker Hal Hartley, and singer Rosanne Cash.
A Smile Shy is his first novel.
“Smart and sweet, poetic and wild... A Smile Shy spares us none of the details of these character’s sorrows and horrors: poverty and addiction, loneliness and domestic violence. And yet every page is infused with both crackling humor and an immense tenderness.”
—Cheri Johnson, author Heists