Erik Tarloff

Erik Tarloff has been writing professionally since his college years. Much of his early work was written for the screen, large and small, including multiple episodes of M*A*S*H, All in the Family, the Bob Newhart Show, The Jeffersons, Alice, and many others. He has been involved in the development of some fifteen or twenty long-form theatrical motion picture scripts for virtually every major studio in Hollywood. He is the author of three plays: Something to Hide, Another Week-End in the Country, and Cedars. Tarloff’s short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Penthouse, Slate, and anthologized in the volume Last Night’s Stranger. He has contributed reviews and articles to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian Magazine, San Francisco Focus, Vogue, Salon, The American Prospect, The Threepenny Review, and the Financial Times, among others. He has been a frequent contributor to the British magazine Prospect, where he was, for a time, a contributing editor. He has also published music criticism (both popular and classical), literary criticism, a diary from the 1996 Democratic Convention, and an assortment of other features in Slate, where he was a regular book critic for several years. In recent years, he has largely devoted his creative energies to fiction. He is the author of the novels Face-Time, The Man Who Wrote the Book, All Our Yesterdays, The Woman in Black, and his latest novel, Tell Me the Truth About Love. He currently lives in Berkeley with his wife, economist Laura Tyson.