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  • Random quote

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  • Stories in Times of Coronavirus

    Der Preis der Oliven

    Маслини, или блус за края на света

    ♪ Kalben ve Sezin Akbaşoğulları’nın sesinden Etgar Keret hikâyeleri

    خواردنی زەیتوون لە کۆتاییی دونیادا

    Mga oliba sa katapusan ng mundo

    ▶ Misis na Sintibay ng Bato

    Eating Olives at the End of the World

    Świat się rozpada, a ty proponujesz mi pieniądze?

    Film? - powiedział, mrużąc oczy od słońca. Był całkowicie przekonany, że to życie

    Onkolożka orzekła, że tata nie będzie mógł nigdy pić. I oto jesteśmy w najbardziej hipsterskiej kawiarni w mieście

    Le monde est sur le point de disparaître et je mange des olives

    Pourquoi quitter cette vie merveilleuse?

    Immagino la mia morte senza più respiro

    O soție tare ca piatra

    Cafea și țigări

    Măsline, sau blues de sfîrșit-de-lume

    ▶ Radu Romaniuc citește din „Missing Kissinger”

    Mijn rotsvaste vrouw

    Olivy alebo blues na konci sveta

    Alyvuogės

    Kaffe og cigaretter

    Moja žena, čvrsta kao stena

    Esposa de pedra

    Outside

    Director’s cut

  • Outside

    A Covid-19 fairytale by Inbal Pinto and Etgar Keret. You can watch the video dance here. It was also screened in various places, including on the outsides of buildings in Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and New York.

    Screening "outside" on outsides of buildings

    Here’s an article about “Outside” at Haaretz.

  • The book

  • The Story

    Read [or listen to Keret reading] the title story “Fly Already” at The New Yorker.

    Photo (CC) Stephan Röhl

  • “Fly Already“ @ 2019 best book lists

    “Fly, Already“ is in the Books of the Year 2019 list at the Times Literary Supplement.

    “For me, any year when there’s a new short story collection from the great Etgar Keret is a good year, so his “Fly Already“ was most welcome: Keret makes it look easy”. — Ian Sansom

    “Fly, Already“ also appears in:

    • The New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2019
    • Financial Times’ Best books of 2019: Fiction in translation
    • Library Journal’s Best Short Story Collections 2019
    • Inews’ Best Books of 2019
    • Rabeea Saleem’s Stand-Out Books Published in the UK in 2019
    • Buzzfeed’s Best Books of 2019
  • If Kafka Were Israeli and Wrote About Talking Goldfish - The New York Times
  • Writing to fight the inertia: Etgar Keret finds inspiration in corona - The Jerusalem Post
  • ‘Director’s Cut’ — The New Yorker
  • ‘Outside’ — The New York Times
  • ▶ BorderKitchen: online interview with Etgar Keret
  • Cannabis Now Interview
  • Between Tragedy and Comedy Lies Genius - Dawn.com
  • Etgar Keret wins the J.J. Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award for Fic­tion | Granta Books
  • High Times interview with Ben Sinclair
  • Sunset Is the Best Time to Get High - Electric Literature
  • 'Fly Already' review - Star Tribune
  • 'Fly Already' review - The Washington Post
  • 'Fly Already' review - Providence Journal
  • Hope Wrapped in Barbed Wire - Jewish Currents
  • ‘Fly Already’ review - The Boston Globe
  • 14 Prose And Poetry Collections Worth Diving Into
  • Review: "Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story" — The Times of Israel
  • Morning Walks With My Son — NYT
  • ▶ "Fly Already" — The New Yorker
  • Humor in the Face of Tragedy — The New Yorker
  • “The Arctic Lizard” — BuzzFeed
  • The Purest Form of Racism
  • ▶ Keret reads “To the Moon and Back”
  • "To the Moon and Back" — The New Yorker
  • ▶ A Phone Call from Paul (2/2) | Literary Hub
  • ▶ A Phone Call from Paul (1/2) | Literary Hub
  • Seven Good Years recommended as a summer read by Vogue
  • I’m Not Anti-Israel, I’m Ambi-Israel — NYT
  • Haaretz interview re Pilobolus piece
  • Keret @ Paste Mag's 30 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
  • Seven Good Years @ Queen Mob's 2015 Review
  • World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2015
  • The Seven Good Years @ NPR's best 2015 books
  • 7 Good Years @ Guardian's best bio/memoirs 2015
  • Culture Trip: Israel's 7 Best And Most Important Writers
  • Eka Kurniawan picks 7 Good Years as 2015 fav
  • The Most (short story)
  • ▶ The (Dis)Honesty Project
  • Going Vegetarian in Israel - NYT
  • Soon (UK, Afghanistan): Farsi translation by Aziz Hakimi
  • ♪ NPR interview
  • ♪ WFPL interview
  • Do Israelis Still Care About Justice? - NYTimes
  • The Guardian interview
  • FT review (paywall)
  • WSJ review (paywall)
  • The Guardian review
  • Boston Globe review
  • Review + weird angle photo @ The Independent
  • NYT Sunday Book Review interview
  • We Ate a Shit-Ton of Hummus with Keret | VICE
  • JWeekly review
  • A Photo Diary of NYC — Literary Hub
  • Paste Magazine interview
  • ♪ TLV1 podcast: Part I
  • Huffington Post interview
  • "Keret calls it a memoir but it's really a TARDIS" — NPR review
  • The Seven Good Years — Run Spot Run review
  • Chicago Tribune review
  • ♪ How a kid persuaded a skeptic to show a little optimism | PRI
  • ♪ "Fresh Air" : NPR
  • ♪ "All Things Considered" : NPR
  • Excerpt: "The Seven Good Years" - Omnivoracious
  • 7 Books You Need to Read This June - LA Magazine
  • Rounding up intriguing summer book releases - Chicago Tribune
  • "7 Good Years" @ 10 Must-Read Books for June – Flavorwire
  • Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Story, Animated
  • In Etgar Keret's memoir, a psychic map of modern Israel — Haaretz.com
  • Etgar Keret Finds Redemption — Forward.com
  • The Seven Good Years @ Esquire's summer reading list
  • Technophobe’s Delight - The New Yorker
  • Publishers Weekly review: The Seven Good Years
  • Taxi Driver - NYTimes
  • ▶ Keret Reads Donald Barthelme (The New Yorker)
  • ▶ Jamming with Benjamin Percy
  • ▶ Interview | Cambio16
  • Interview with The New Yorker
  • One Gram Short at The New Yorker
  • ▶ Keret reads “One Gram Short”
  • Photo by Ewa Szatybelko
  • November dates, USA
  • The New Yorker: Kashua / Keret mails
  • Cartoon by Tomasz Broda
  • Seven Good Years — Polish cover
  • Tel Aviv Noir at Goodreads
  • Tel Aviv Noir review at JTA
  • Yom Kippur – My favorite holiday
  • Starred review for Tel Aviv Noir in Library Journal
  • Granta Magazine Interview
  • Israel’s Other War
  • Why I will never leave Israel, despite it all
  • NPR interview
  • Give compromise a chance - LA Times
  • Aurelie "throws the book" at Keret
  • "Chips" at Nerve Magazine
  • "Fungus" at Tablet mag
  • Interview with Shanghai Daily
  • Sometimes ‘Nazi’ Is the Right Word
  • "Car Concentrate" - new story at granta
  • Alex Karpovsky reads "Creative Writing"
  • At Blue Flower Arts agency
  • IMDb
  • At ITHL
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