A delightful collection from legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky-who currently appears over the Goldbergs, HBO’s Silicon Valley, and the serial podcast The Tobolowsky Documents- “some true stories that wrestle using a big idea: how belief designs our lives. Funny, smart, and moving, this is an excellent accounts of our relationship with the unknowable” (Susan Orlean, NY Times bestselling writer of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin).

In My Escapades with God, Stephen Tobolowsky about My Activities with God explores the idea that most people’s lives seem to fit into the template of the Aged Testament. We all have effective creation misconceptions: stories of our youth and family, our first fights won and lost. It really is our Genesis. Then, like in the Book of Exodus, we go into slavery. Instead of building pyramids, we drop ourselves in dread and ambition-in first adores, first jobs, too many dreams mixed with too much ale. We ultimately become free, and then wander in the wilderness. At some point we stop and proclaim to the world who we are. That is our Leviticus instant. We reconcile what we should thought we would be with what we’ve become. We frequently attempt a mid-course modification. After that, such as the Reserve of Figures, we are shaped by mortality even as we bear the increased loss of relatives and buddies. Finally, we retell our stories to our children hoping to create sense from the journey, like Moses do in Deuteronomy.

Tobolowsky’s stories tell of a boy growing up in the wilds of Texas, acquiring and losing love, losing and getting himself-all told through the prism from the Torah and Talmud, mixed with insights from technology, and refined through a child’s feeling of question. My Activities with God is certainly a “fast-paced, precise, wide-ranging, and amazing book draws on the I Ching, Talmud, Einstein, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and reruns of SportsCenter to create counterpoints when talking about his existence of faith. That is a well-told, must-read…for anyone thinking about a comedic experience using the divine” (Web publishers Weekly).