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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Etgar Keret" journal:

December 12th, 2009
03:30 am [Link]	Drapliga uppenbarelser - hd.se Hd.se: "Hilarious revelations" A review of "Goda intentioner" (good intentions) - a new collection of short stories by Etgar Keret translated to the Swedish language Tags: book, news
December 9th, 2009
04:30 pm [Link]	Голосовать Этгар Керет Голосовать Этгар Керет Russian speaking Etgar Keret fans, please vote for him at the "Reading St. Petersburg 2009: choose the best foreign writer" poll (Читающий Петербург 2009: выбираем лучшего зарубежного писателя). In a booknik.ru article about Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Reading St. Petersburg 2009" project, they say Keret is doing pretty well so far in the polls, but of course it's too early to tell the outcome. If you're a Russian speaking fan of Etgar Keret, it's a good time to show your support. If you are not yet familiar with Russian translations of his stories, you can listen to two of them: Разбить поросенка (Breaking the pig), and Лето 76-го (The summer of '76), and hopefully you'll become a fan too. Photo by Simon (at a book reading in Moscow, November 2009) Tags: book, news
July 27th, 2009
05:42 pm [Link]	Keret's "Your Man" and "Shooting Tuvia" on WNYC podcast (NPR) WNYC - Selected Shorts: Strange But True: Aimee Bender and Etgar Keret (July 26, 2009) A special evening at Symphony Space celebrated the startling fiction of two young authors, the American Aimee Bender, and the Israeli Etgar Keret. Drunken Mimi by Aimee Bender, read by Bernadette Quigley Your Man by Etgar Keret, read by David Rakoff Shooting Tuvia by Etgar Keret, read by David Rakoff Death Watch by Aimee Bender read by Bernadette Quigley [Download MP3] [Listen online] Tags: audio, book, news, story
June 28th, 2009
02:39 pm [Link]	"The Girl on the Fridge" nominated for Shirley Jackson award Nominees Announced for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards COLLECTION A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (Knopf) The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa (Picador) The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco) More about the Shirley Jackson awards for "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic" at wikipedia Tags: book, news
May 23rd, 2009
07:47 pm [Link]	Times online recommends Kneller's Happy Campers Books: In short - Times Online "[Kneller's Happy Campers] is like nothing else" Tags: book, news
January 4th, 2009
08:34 pm [Link]	Audio (streaming and MP3): 4 short stories by Etgar Keret and others Public Radio International \| Family Matters On this hour of "Selected Shorts": Four stories about families and children by classic and contemporary writers ... Israeli writer Etgar Keret's "Pride and Joy," in which a childhood prodigy takes a toll on his parents. The reader is Tony Award- winner Robert Sean Leonard. From: "The Nimrod Flipout" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) This audio recording also features stories by Shirley Jackson, Jeanne Dixon, and Rick Moody (read by Lois Smith, Mia Dillon, and B.D. Wong) Tags: audio, book, news, story
December 29th, 2008
04:18 am [Link]	"The Girl on the Fridge" picked by January Magazine's as one of 2008's best January Magazine: Best Books of 2008: Fiction Writers have a particular challenge when trying to create believable plot and characters in stories which typically range from just a few sentences to a few pages. How do you reduce a universe of meaning to something the size of a breadbox? Etgar Keret makes it look so easy Tags: book, news
October 5th, 2008
06:11 pm [Link]	Neal Stephenson recommends Keret to SXSW folks Four Questions with Neal Stephenson SXSW: Who are you reading? Neal Stephenson: Whenever I'm given one of these opportunities, I put in a word for the late David Foster Wallace, who I think was one of the best we had. Anyone who is looking for something great to read, a big novel type experience, should look at Infinite Jest. Also, Etgar Keret, an Israeli writer of very short stories who I admire very much because I can't write short fiction. This is a great honour. Tags: book, news
May 30th, 2008
07:30 am [Link]	Israel at 60: the Etgar Keret Version (Open Source Radio) Audio interview with Keret at Christofer Lydon's "Open Source Radio" (Brown university). Tags: audio, book, interview, news
May 22nd, 2008
04:09 pm [Link]	Seatle's "The stranger" reviews "The girl on the fridge" Constant Reader ("The Stranger", Seatle): In his most recent book to be translated to English, The Girl on the Fridge, there are almost 50 stories packed into 171 pages, but this isn't the typical, unsatisfying flash fiction; in stories of three pages or less, Keret unveils little universes of weirdness and sorrow, but unlike, say, Carver's stories, they don't feel like they were written 30 years ago. Tags: book, news
May 19th, 2008
07:08 pm [Link]	NY Times on "The Girl on the Fridge" NY Times reviews "the girl on the fridge" “And Michal — she’s the prettiest girl in the school, probably — came by and she said we were all disgusting and like animals, and I barfed but not because of her.” Keret often punctuates his stories with this type of upsetting but also vaguely funny ending. When these final sentences hit, they hit hard, like literary afterburners that push the stories deeper into your gut. Tags: book, news
06:36 pm [Link]	"Missing Kissinger" gets the [£4,000] Wingate prize Jewish Chronicle: Etgar Keret is the winner of the 2008 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for his imaginative and mischievous collection of short stories, Missing Kissinger (Chatto & Windus). The 41-year-old Israeli writer and film-maker triumphed over Tom Segev, Philip Davis and Philippe Grimbert, and wins £4,000 Tags: book, news
April 28th, 2008
04:25 am [Link]	"The Girl on the Fridge" on Rayner's shortlist "The Girl on the Fridge" on Richard Rayner's shortlist (LA Times) The prose zips, the effects unsettle -- Keret is himself something of a magician, and what he pulls from his hat feels lively indeed. Tags: book, news
April 22nd, 2008
08:18 pm [Link]	Heeb Magazine on "The Girl on the Fridge" Heeb Magazine: Things Fall Apart Though rooted in ordinary events—birthday parties, traffic jams—and told in straightforward, unadorned prose, the fantastic inevitably creeps in, leaving his stories with a strange foreboding. Such is the case in “Hat Trick,” in which an unwitting magician starts pulling severed rabbits and headless babies out of his hat to the delight of his underage audience; or “Crazy Glue,” in which a marital dispute is solved when the woman pastes herself to the ceiling with super glue. This surrealism, coupled with glib narration, belies how serious a writer Keret is and how dark his subject matter. This does not mean that the author’s bizarre scenes won’t make you laugh—they will—but just as often, that laughter will get stuck in your throat Tags: book, news
April 21st, 2008
09:28 am [Link]	"The Girl on the Fridge" is out (since 15th of April, actually) "The Girl on the Fridge" is out. Here's a couple of reviews: Village Voice By his own metric, Keret (whose last collection was The Nimrod Flipout) is the raging asthmatic of short-fiction writers, his words chosen and few, his stories issued with the urgency of an inhaler's blast. San Diego Union-Tribune Rarely are stories as economical as Keret's, and rarely are economical stories as affecting as these. Keret, an Israeli writer whose work has been featured on “This American Life” and “Selected Shorts,” explores the nature of violence and alienation from a surreal, whimsical perspective in writings that rarely exceeds five pages in length. Even the most impatient reader has time for these quick reads. Tags: amazon, book, old news
May 24th, 2007
02:23 pm [Link]	Catalog entry at ITHL Etgar Keret's page at ITHL (Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature). See what books are available in your language. Tags: book, press kit
May 13th, 2007
03:45 pm [Link]	Missing Kissinger Missing Kissinger Tags: amazon, book
May 12th, 2007
10:02 pm [Link]	The Nimrod Flip Out The Nimrod Flip Out Tags: amazon, book
10:01 pm [Link]	Dad Runs Away with the Circus Dad Runs Away with the Circus Tags: amazon, book
09:56 pm [Link]	The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God Tags: amazon, book

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