Abandoned a promising Mixed Martial Arts career to become a writer at the insistence of novelist Cormac McCarthy.
When writing the movie "21," learned to stack poker chips from professional Vegas chip stacking legend Salty Rains.
Speaks limited Spanish.
Has won two regional pie baking competitions and placed top three in an astonishing seventeen others. Credits his success to a Kugel pie recipe his bubbe bequeathed him in her will.