Jon Carroll | The Sun Magazine

Jon Carroll

Jon Carroll is a daily columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, the former editor of New West, and a contributor to many national magazines.

— From October 1985
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Bat Mitzvah Papers

First I was a Presbyterian; then I converted to Judaism; now I wander around in the same humanist/deist fog that substitutes for Organized Religion with so many of my contemporaries. Not exactly satisfying; not bad either.

October 1985
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