[14] In 2012, Goldberg, Rider Strong, and Julia Pistell started Literary Disco, a podcast about books and writing.
[15] It is now part of the LitHub Radio Network and was recently named one of the top literary podcasts by the Washington Post.
He is also the co-host of Open Book, along with Maggie Downs, a popular radio interview show in the Coachella Valley on KCOD-FM.
His next novel, Gangster Nation,[20] released in 2017, continued the story of Sal Cupertine/Rabbi David Cohen, picking up two years after Gangsterland's conclusion.
The book received glowing reviews in Kirkus,[21] Publishers Weekly,[22] Booklist,[23] Mystery Scene Magazine,[24] the Orange County Register,[25] and numerous other outlets.
[35] In fall 2024, Eight Very Bad Nights, a collection of Hanukkah Noir that he edited, will be released by Soho Press, and will include stories by him, his brother Lee Goldberg, and authors Ivy Pochoda, David Ulin, Gabino Iglesias, James D.F.
[40] Previously, as an instructor of creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles Extension Writers' Program, he was named Teacher of the Year in 2005.