Etgar Keret
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Story by Keret on next episode of This American Life - May 22nd

Actor Matt Malloy reads "Shoes" by Etgar Keret, about a boy who betrays his people with a pair of shoes on the radio show "This American Life".

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)

FLP - Free Library Podcast: Etgar Keret & Rivka Galchen

MP3 download of both authors reading their stories, and a Q&A session (51:28)
Recorded 10/23/2008 at Central Library, Philadelphia

Etgar Keret's favorite radio show, "This American Life", features his story "Lieland" in this week's podcast of the show. "Lieland" is one of the stories available for free download only this week (starting next week, please ignore this sentence :) ).

LA Weekly has published Keret's short story "Loquat"

I gave her the gun, but she slapped it right back into my hand. “That’s not kids, that’s animals,” she said resolutely.
“Okay, Grandma, I’ll take the rifle.” I gave in with a hopeless sigh and kissed her cheek. “Now go inside.”
Oh, mon petit gendarme,” Grandma said, clapping her hands happily. Filled with satisfaction at her small victory, she skipped up the steps.
Soldat,” I cried after her.

LA Weekly - Short Story: Freeze!

Suddenly I could do it. I’d say “Freeze!” and everyone would freeze, just like that, in the middle of the street ... And I’d walk past them till I found the prettiest girls... bring them home and fuck their brains out ... I felt fantastic. I felt like a king. Until my mother butted in ...

Ilustration: Deanna Staffo
ILLUSTRATION:
Deanna Staffo


La Weekly Art/Books - An Exclusive story by Etgar Keret:

I was knocking down a wall
All women reporters are whores
and I was knocking down a wall...
Translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverstone

Hebrew speakers may read works by Keret at stage.co.il (rrrrrrrrrespect to Bo)

Here are some links to English translations of Keret's stories from Hebrew:
Halibut, One Kiss on the Mouth in Mombasa, The Nimrod Flip-Out, and A Bet.

The story "Phenomenal Hard-Ons" (not published in Hebrew yet), appears in Nerve Adult zine and dating community (you can always say you're there for the articles. eh?)

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