 From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Tanya Mosley with Fresh Air. Today, writer Shalom Auslander. His new memoir is a satirical look at all the ways a sense of fe, which is Yiddish for yuck, has made its way into his psyche in every aspect of his life. Auslander has written extensively over the years about growing up in a dysfunctional Orthodox Jewish family as the son of an alcoholic father and a guilt-wielding mother.