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December 12th, 2009
03:30 am

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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

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December 9th, 2009
04:30 pm

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Голосовать Этгар Керет
Keret at a book reading in Moscow, November 2009 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)

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December 7th, 2009
03:21 pm

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אתגר קרת לא מוכן להשתתף בניסוי הביומטרי

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December 6th, 2009
05:18 pm

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DVD: Le sens de la vie pour 9,99$

The French version of the "$9.99" DVD is available on amazon.fr

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05:10 pm

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Swedish interview with Etgar Keret
”Goda intentioner” ("Good Intentions"), a collection of short stories by Etgar Keret translated to Swedish was recently published.
Here's an interview with Etgar Keret by Dn.se (Swedish language)

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November 26th, 2009
10:04 pm

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Freeland - every Friday midnight at Tel Aviv Cinematheque
לא קשור ישירות לאתגר, אבל אם לא תדע - איך תבוא
סצינה מתוך הסרט
סצינת סקס
לחימום יוקרן "עובר ושב". סרט קצר, אך דחוס

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November 25th, 2009
04:29 pm

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Аудио: рассказы Этгар Керет
Audio: 2 stories by Etgar Keret in Russian

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November 14th, 2009
08:19 pm

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Audio: Story by Keret on "This American Life" podcast episode 393
Audio: Story by Keret on "This American Life" podcast
Once again, a never before published story is available in audio thanks to Ira Glass.
In Episode 393 of his show "This American Life", around 52:00, Actor Matt Malloy reads Keret's new story "Mystique"

חדש: הסיפור "מיסטיק" בעברית

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October 23rd, 2009
12:51 am

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Audio/video: Ira Glass (This American Life) and Etgar Keret, NY Public Library event, October 28
Live event: Ira Glass and Etgar Keret - Is Reality Overrated?
In a New York Public Library's Live from the NYPL event, "This American Life" host Ira Glass talks with writer Etgar Keret about his short fiction and films, runaway piggy banks, bus drivers and other, lesser gods.

Around 31:00, Keret reads a never-published-before story about telling a story at gun point.

Event details | Listen (Flash player) | Download (MP3)

New: Video

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September 15th, 2009
10:22 am

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Australian Sunday Morning Herald about Keret and $9.99
Australian Sunday Morning Herald: Writer plots pathways into puzzle of Israeli life
When Keret presented Jellyfish at Yale University, six Jews in the audience walked out halfway through the screening, screaming that he was an anti-Zionist, self-hating Israeli. Their gripe was a scene in the film that showed a couple that kept having to change from one sleazy Tel Aviv hotel to another. "They thought I was presenting Israel as a shitty country with shitty hotels so no tourists would come here and yelled out that it was no wonder I got French financing for the film because the French hate Jews."

The reverse was true in Italy, where the film was strongly criticised for being anti-Palestinian because it portrayed a Palestinian director who did a bad job of directing a Shakespeare play.

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August 26th, 2009
01:03 pm

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A new Uzi-related story about the hidden costs of nightmare maintenance
Requiem for a Dream - Tablet Magazine
"That makes sense," I told Uzi. "But what do I do to make sure that that nightmare doesn't come back, see a psychologist?"
"That won't do you any good," he interrupted. "... What you need isn't a bunch of lies from a Ph.D. in clinical psych.
You need a real solution: a nest-egg in a foreign bank account. ..."

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August 5th, 2009
11:36 am

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Fairfield County Weekly (Connecticut): short review of "$9.99"
Fairfield County Weekly's
Etgar Keret, with "Jellyfish" and "Wristcutters: A Love Story", is fast becoming a favored supplier of quirky plots for indie filmmakers. With the imaginative, intertwining stories in "$9.99", it's easy to see why.

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August 2nd, 2009
08:39 am

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"$9.99" hi-rez poster (jpg and pdf)
Meaning of life available for $9.99. Download poster for FREEDownload "$9.99" high resolution poster

JPG (1.7MB)

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Enjoy

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August 1st, 2009
04:56 pm

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$9.99 review at startribune.com (Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN)
Star Tribune's Colin Covert reviews "$9.99"
"$9.99" marries the tradition of Jewish self-flagellating humor with uncanny absurdity. The film shows us miracles coexisting with the mundane, a tone of disorienting everyday oddness that is equal parts "Seinfeld," Kafka and Gumby.

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July 31st, 2009
12:51 pm

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Philadelphia Inquirer's movie critic Steven Rea reviews $9.99
Phillly.com $9.99 review: Themes of hope, angst, masterfully molded in clay
Using the medium of Wallace and Gromit and Gumby, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal turns her clay figures into real people in $9.99, a wise, wistful study of hope and dread

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July 27th, 2009
05:42 pm

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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]

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July 10th, 2009
06:25 pm

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Peter Hartlaub, SF Chronicle Pop Culture Critic on "$9.99"
SFGate:
"$9.99" has a broad appeal, but fans of quality low-tech animation are going to be blown away.

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June 28th, 2009
02:39 pm

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"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

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June 27th, 2009
01:31 am

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$9.99 showtimes
$9.99 show times (click icons to enlarge)



Source: $9.99 site

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12:53 am

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$9.99 reviews by Washington Times and Boston.com
More $9.99 reviews

Washington Times
"There was some talk at the end of last year about "$9.99" emerging as a dark-horse candidate in the animated-feature category at the Academy Awards. Though that never materialized, such rumors are a testament to the caliber of the film and the subjects it broaches."
The Boston Globe
"The result of [Keret's] screenwriting collaboration with Rosenthal is a movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy - in fact, most of its beliefs are strenuously ambiguous; that's a key part of the joke."

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