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Beware of GodShalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's...Read More
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Livingston Patch, May 23, 2012
...the temple office at 973.994.2290. Thursday, June 7, 7:30 PM Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander Anyone who read Auslander’s first book, Foreskin’s Lament, will long remember it, and the same will no doubt be true for Hope. Solomon Kugel flees...
Canadian Jewish News, May 22, 2012
...Shalom Auslander, who has been called “America’s hottest, funniest, most controversial young Jewish memoirist,” is being interviewed by Toronto author Michael Wex (whose wry humour is renowned) to open the...
New York Times, May 19, 2012
...Hockeys Prayer Book To the Sports Editor: Re God and the Devils, May 12: I am a big Shalom Auslander fan. His account of walking from New Jersey to Madison Square Garden on the Sabbath to watch the Rangers on the big screen (in the memoir Foreskins...
New Statesman, April 19, 2012
...novelist and critic Ben Marcus asks why American writers today are obsessed with apocalypse; Jonathan Derbyshire talks to Shalom Auslander about his novel Hope: A Tragedy , in which the protagonist discovers an elderly Anne Frank living in his attic in...
Huffington Post, April 9, 2012
...Ben Marcus, Willem Dafoe, Stanley Tucci, Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Neal Stephenson, Miranda July, Gary Shteyngart, Adam Thirlwell, Shalom Auslander, David Rakoff and Jonathan Safran Foer. Keep an ear out for excerpts on a public radio station near...
Chronogram Arts Culture Spirt, April 4, 2012
...be developed into a TV series by another Bold Face Name, author Bret Easton Ellis. Other humor panelist Shalom Auslander’s new book, Hope: A Tragedy, continues to draw rave reviews and the author has just announced he is developing a television series...
Canadian Jewish News, March 27, 2012
...American author-essayist Shalom Auslander and Toronto writer-activist Michele Landsberg have been chosen to headline the new Toronto Jewish Book Festival in early June, the hosting Koffler Centre of the Arts announced last week...
Century Foundation, March 2, 2012
...only one mode: apocalyptic." And the prime minister often depicts contemporary realities as akin to 1938. In Shalom Auslander's new novel, Hope: A Tragedy, the lead protagonist, Solomon Kugel, discovers a living and elderly Anne Frank in his attic, at...
Times Union, March 1, 2012
...Events involving the author Shalom Auslander’s appearance today as part of the New York State Writers Institute’s An ex-Orthodox Jew, humorist, cultural renegade and contributor to NPR’s “This American Life,” Auslander was...
Jewish Week, February 29, 2012
...her starring roles in Nathan Englander’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” and Shalom Auslander’s “Hope: A Tragedy.” Last week, in an apparent violation of an agreement by the Church of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon Church in...
Guardian.co.uk, February 29, 2012
...A Tragedy picks his favourite books that 'look into the abyss, smile, and give the abyss the finger' Shalom Auslander is the author of a story collection, Beware of God, and the memoir Foreskin's Lament. His first novel, Hope: A Tragedy, which follows...
Guardian.co.uk, February 29, 2012
...dead Jews." The thing might be over for you, but it's still alive for us. In Shalom Auslander 's funny and acerbic new novel, Hope: A Tragedy , the Holocaust is still alive in the most real way possible. His hero, Kugel (a Dickensian name – kugel is...
AllVoices, February 29, 2012
...In Auslander's novel, the Holocaust is still alive in the most real way possible. Photograph: David Levene I have a theory that Jews and non-Jews watch Holocaust films very differently. I expect non-Jewish people watch them for the same reasons......
Salon, February 28, 2012
...the Yiddishkeit homage. We have no dearth of Holocaust-themed novels, of course, and authors such as Dara Horn, Shalom Auslander and Jonathan Safran Foer have been reimagining Aleichem?s and Singer?s fabulisms through novels set in an otherwise quotidian...
