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Paris Review interview

May. 14th, 2012 | 11:15 pm

I think I’m controversial among some of the people in Israel and accepted by others, but the same can also be said for evolutionary theory.
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Guardian Books podcast

May. 5th, 2012 | 08:50 pm

"Jeet Thayil and Etgar Keret ... push fiction out of the comfort zone"

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Shelfari interview

May. 2nd, 2012 | 11:53 pm

I think the world is changing, and these changes can actually improve the situation of the short story. But I don't think that publishers have internalized it.
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Listen to keret on NPR Boston's "On Point"

May. 2nd, 2012 | 11:44 pm

ListenListen to Etgar Keret at Tom Ashbrook's On Point

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Monday, 7PM (SF time): Watch Keret (and Michael Chabon) live

Apr. 21st, 2012 | 11:44 pm

Keret's USA tour opens on Monday (April 23rd) 7PM (PDT) at a JCCSF evening hosted by Michael Chabon.
If you can't attend the event, you'll still be able to watch it live.
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Globe and Mail review: "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door"

Apr. 21st, 2012 | 02:20 am

"Anything can happen, and always does. It’s very scary, and also exhilarating. This you know, too: For all the terrible things that happen, humiliations and deaths by running over by scooter, life with Keret is very, very, appallingly funny."
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NPR review: "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door"

Apr. 21st, 2012 | 01:15 am

"Keret is funny, snarly, profane and so contemporary that if he used more brand names you might accuse him of being Pop art."
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SF Bay Guardian interview

Apr. 18th, 2012 | 04:44 pm

For me, the term "writing routine" sounds like an oxymoron. It is a bit like saying "having-a-once-in-a-lifetime-insight-which-makes-you-want-to burst-into-tears routine." There has never been anything routine-like about writing for me.

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Listen to stories from the audiobook

Apr. 16th, 2012 | 01:41 am

In the audiobook, you can listen to an all-star cast reading the book's 35 stories, as well as a bonus story read by Keret himself.
You can also listen to some of these stories on the web:
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
read by Ira Glass
Mystique
read by Willem Dafoe
Creative Writing
read by Stanley Tucci
What, Of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?
read by Gary Shteyngart
September All Year Long
read by Neal Stephenson
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NY Times review: "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door"

Apr. 15th, 2012 | 01:17 am

"Reduced to their outlines, plots like [Keret's] can sound gimmicky. But Keret alights upon protagonists in the midst of psychic upheaval, willing to embrace the bizarre twists that deliver them to their appointed grace or ruin. The humor in their travails arises not from an effort to charm the reader but to confront the darkness that shadows our human folly."
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