Podcasts about Shalom Auslander

For Easter weekend — and the end of Passover! — stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription.Host Ira Glass reads from the Ten Commandments. Not the original Ten Commandments, but some of the newer, lesser-known ones. There's the Miner's Ten Commandments of 1853, the Ten Commandments of Umpiring, and the Ten Commandments for Math Teachers — just to name a few. (4 minutes)Commandments One, Two and Three: As a boy in religious school, Shalom Auslander is informed that his name, Shalom, is one of the names of God, and so he must be very careful not to take his own name in vain. (9 minutes)Commandment Four: Six houses of worship in six different cities, each with its own way of honoring the Sabbath. (3 minutes)Commandment Five: When Jack Hitt was 11, he did the worst thing his father could have imagined. Neither Jack nor his four siblings will ever forget the punishment. (6 minutes)Commandment Six: Alex Blumberg talks to Lt. Col. Lyn Brown, an Army Reserve chaplain who served two tours in Iraq. Brown talks about what "thou shalt not kill" means to soldiers on the battlefield. (6 minutes)Commandment Seven: In the book of Matthew, Jesus says that looking lustfully at a woman is like committing adultery in your heart. Contributor David Dickerson was raised as an evangelical Christian, and for many years tried not to have a single lustful thought. (9 minutes)Commandment Eight: Ira talks to a waiter named Hassan at Liebman's Deli in the Bronx about some audacious thefts he's witnessed in his years in the restaurant business. (3 minutes)Commandment Nine: Chaya Lipschutz wanted to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger. But to save a stranger's life, she had to break the commandment against lying. And the person she had to lie to was her mother. Chaya talked to Sarah Koenig. (8 minutes)Commandment Ten: Ira talks to seventh-graders about the things they covet most. (4 minutes)Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.orgThis American Life privacy policy.Learn more about sponsor message choices.

In his memoir Feh, writer Shalom Auslander attempts to escape his biblical upbringing and carve his own path, with a little help from Kafka; poet and former professional Muay Thai fighter Simon Shieh reckons with trauma, masculinity, and the art of healing in his debut collection Master; and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson performs her single "Pawnshop" from her album Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?, live from the Pickathon festival. Plus, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello hear from our audience about the small, shameful things they grapple with. 

Die Zeiten ändern sich, manchmal schnell. Noch am 8. August 2024, also vor einem halben Jahr, warb ich hier für den Abbruch, das nicht zu Ende Lesen von Büchern, am Beispiel von dreien solcher. Zu schön war der Sommer und zu deprimierend, zu anstrengend, zu weltfremd oder einfach nur zu lang waren die Werke. Seitdem haben wir lange vergessene Habitus (← Mehrzahl, sagt Google!) wiedererlernen müssen, das Anziehen von Anoraks zum Beispiel oder dass es erst früh um 10 hell wird, so ein bisschen und 15:00 Uhr wieder düster. Stockfinster wurde es tageszeitübergreifend dann plötzlich am 5. November 2024. Nachdem seit diesem verhängnisvollen Tag die, wie wir mittlerweile sicher sein können, faschistische Machtübernahme in den USA läuft und ähnliches hierzulande dräut, haben wir also alle das Doomscrolling wiedererlernt, man will keine Nachricht, keine Schweinetat, keine Unmenschlichkeit verpassen, um dann altklug und rechthaberisch den Kopf zu schütteln. Irgendwann jedoch schmerzt das Genick und man denkt wieder drüber nach, in Fantasiewelten zu fliehen, fühlt sich aber auch ein bisschen schuldig, im Angesicht der Diktatur des Bösen, komplett abzuschalten.Da erinnert man sich plötzlich, da war doch jemand, damals im August, als es noch hell war, dem es damals schon so schlecht mit der Welt ging, vielleicht weiß der ja Rat. Wie hieß er noch, es war der tollste Name der Welt, genau, Shalom Auslander, dem ging es so schlecht in "Feh", dass ich mir davon nicht die Laune verderben lassen wollte und das Buch weglegte. Geschrieben hatte er es vor der Pandemie von 2020 (man sollte sich langsam angewöhnen, die Dinger zu spezifizieren), also in einer Zeit voller fun in the sun für uns - nicht so für Shalom. Fünf Jahre später lebt man selbst in dunklen Zeiten und wir alle gehören jetzt zur Zielgruppe des Buches. Also habe ich "Feh" tatsächlich zu Ende gelesen. Die Stories darin waren schon damals gut, das war nicht mein Problem und die Verzweiflung an der Welt, damals, im August noch als übertrieben empfunden, ist nun auch die meine. Woran Auslander vor allem leidet ist, dass die Menschen so unachtsam oder einfach "not nice" sind. Ja, ich sehe das jetzt auch so. Bisher war meine Meinung: "Ja, wir alle sind das mal", aber ich war sicher, alle Leserinnen von "Lob und Verriss", so als Querschnitt durch die Gesellschaft, geben sich Mühe das so selten wie möglich zu sein. Was sich seitdem verändert hat, in die Welt gekommen zu sein scheint oder einfach nur an die Oberfläche gespült wurde, ist eine systemische Brutalität. Nicht nur die übliche Gedankenlosigkeit, der Alltagsrassismus, -klassismus, -antifeminismus, whathaveyou, nein, das Pendel schwingt zurück. Brutal. Und Shalom Auslander hatte das schon im Blick, damals, prepandemisch. Also konnte er es damals schon analysieren und, na klar, nichts lässt sich auf ein Problem, ein System, ein Gift zurückführen, aber Auslander meint sich konzentrieren zu müssen auf die Hauptursacher der ganzen Kacke: die "Religion", genauer, die des Alten Testaments. Und tatsächlich, da wird aktuell zum Beispiel von einem Möchtegernintelektuellen, der sich in die luftigen Höhen des Vizepräsidialamtes der US of A hochgebumst hat, die olle Schwarte und ihre Interpretatoren zu scheinheiligen Argumentationen herangezogen, nämlich, dass es eine "Reihenfolge der Barmherzigkeit" gäbe, no s**t, das stehe schon in der Bibel. Nun, da steht alles Mögliche drin und so nimmt er halt dieses Mal das Prinzip "ordo amoris" (don't google it) und macht daraus "Ausländer raus". Der F****r. Wie kann man die Bibel so falsch lesen, fragt man sich, wenn man den Spruch gegoogelt hat (ich sagte "Don't google it"!). "Duh!", sagte Auslander, wie wir jetzt wissen, wo wir das Buch zu Ende gelesen haben, "It's a feature, not a bug". Die Bibel als Lehrbuch der Barmherzigkeit? "Geh mir weg!", argumentiert Shalom im Buch. Wo in der f*****g Bibel kommt Gott als "barmherzig" davon? Die Sintflut, bei der im Grunde nur Noah übrig blieb? Sodom und Gomorra, wo Gott direkt zwei komplette Städte ausradierte, weil, falsch gefickt? Wenn man sich diesen kleingeistigen Shithead zum Vorbild nimmt, kommt ziemlich exakt das raus, was man in den USA gerade an realer Politik sieht und was sich die CDU/CSU, als arschkriechende Nachahmer, interessiert sabbernd anschauen.Leider ist das Buch noch nicht übersetzt, aber seine kleinen moralischen Gleichnisse und Geschichten sind in leicht verdaulichem Englisch verfasst und man erfährt nebenbei noch ein bisschen Hollywood-Gossip. Es gibt herzzerreißende Stories von seinem Freund Philip Seymour Hoffman und einen sehr geheimnisvollen Beef mit Paul Rudd. Und am Ende einen Hauch Hoffnung. Irre.Schon lange unter dem Titel "Corvus" auf Deutsch erschienen war das zweite im August weggelegte Buch. Im Original hieß es "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell", geschrieben von Neal Stephenson und natürlich ist auch das Ding jetzt wieder ganz oben auf der Leseliste gelandet, schließlich verbraten im Buch Tech-Bros absurde Mengen an Ressourcen um für die Mehrheit der Menschen unnützen Scheiß zu machen - wo haben wir das schon mal gehört? Für den theoretischen Überbau dieser inhumanen Kacke, sprich, des sich Konzentrieren auf die Probleme einer fernen Zukunft, statt der realen Schwierigkeiten im Hier und Jetzt, habe ich letztens schon diesen Vortrag empfohlen, der mir erst bei Wiederaufnahme der Lektüre wieder einfiel, beschreibt er doch sehr verständlich die absurden aber tatsächlichen, realen Gedanken der aktuell unser aller Leben bestimmenden Multimilliardäre. In der Fiktion von Stephenson gibt es diese F****r auch, auch diese wollen eine Erde ohne Menschen, wenn auch irgendwie "positiver", vielleicht auch nur (vom Autor) unreflektierter. Aus irgendeinem Grund muss das Buch ja für Neal Stephenson Verhältnisse gefloppt sein. Aber da die real existierenden Arschlöcher, die Musks, Horowitzs, Thiels nicht genug bekommen können von Science Fiction und Fantasy und völlig ungeniert ihre Milliardenbuden nach absolut negativ konnotierten Fantasyobjekten wie z.B. Palantir, benennen, ist es fast Pflichtlektüre, die aktuellen Vorlagen mal nicht nur unter dem Unterhaltungsaspekt zu konsumieren sondern als Forschung, um zu erkennen, was in den kranken Köpfen der Superreichen aktuell so an Plänen für uns Biomasse heranreifen könnte. Also bin ich jetzt doch wieder dran am Werk und nebenbei ist Stephenson natürlich immer noch ein brillanter Schriftsteller und "Fall"/"Corvus", wenn auch viermal zu lang, super zu lesen, wenn man sich die Zeit nimmt und nicht erwartet einem gefühlt 4000-Seiten-Roman (ok, 1153 im deutschen) zu 100% folgen zu können.Und was ist aus dem dritten Buch in der Reihe der Nicht-zu-Ende gelesenen geworden? Taffy Brodesser-Akners "Long Island Compromise"? Ja, das habe ich auch zu Ende gelesen und es hat sich als das beste der drei herausgestellt und als ein wichtiges zudem. Das war nicht wirklich abzusehen und da es am 10. März 2025 unter dem Titel "Die Fletchers von Long Island" auf deutsch erscheint, bekommt es aus diesem Anlass eine eigene Rezension. Sie wird überschrieben sein mit "Wir müssen über den Holocaust sprechen" - also wie gewohnt ein Brüller vom Herrn Falschgold.Bis dahin, genauer bis zum 16. März 2025, verbleibt Derselbige.P.S. Als konkrete Lebenshilfe für Winterdeprimierte empfehle ich aktuell das Hören (!) des "Zauberberg 2" von Heinz Strunk. Die Jahreszeit passt und wer nicht spontan in hysterisches Lachen ausbricht, wenn der Heinz von der Therapiegruppe im Sanatorium erzählt und schief singt:The river she's flowing, Flowing and growing, The river she's flowing, Back to the sea.Mother Earth carrying me, Your child I will always be, Mother Earth carrying me, Back to the sea.dem geht's nicht schlecht genug. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lobundverriss.substack.com

Twenty-two of this year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2024 and the books they hope to get to in 2025! Guests include Roland Allen, Shalom Auslander, Laura Beers, Sven Birkerts, Mirana Comstock, Leela Corman, Nicholas Delbanco, Benjamin Dreyer, Eric Drooker, Randy Fertel, Sammy Harkham, Frances Jetter, Ken Krimstein, Jim Moske, Robert Pranzatelli, Jess Ruliffson, Dmitry Samarov, Dash Shaw, David Small, Benjamin Swett, Maurice Vellekoop, and D.W. Young (+ me)! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter

"Feh" is the Yiddish word for an expression of disapproval or disgust. It is also the title of Shalom Auslander's new memoir which is a quest to understand how this concept became an internalized theme of his life.

We talk about processing in therapy, little Littles, and why (it feels like) shiny happy God can't be not-real.  (I do not say God isn't real, but hear a quote that references trauma in the connection between spiritual and earthly parents).NPR Interview referenced HERE.  The author interviewed is Shalom Auslander.You can JOIN THE COMMUNITY HERE.  We have peer support check-in groups, an art group, a lego group, movie groups, and social events.  Additional zoom groups are optional, but only available by joining the groups. Join us!  To submit an email to the podcast:    podcast@systemspeak.comContent Note: Content on this website and in the podcasts is assumed to be trauma and/or dissociative related due to the nature of what is being shared here in general.  Content descriptors are generally given in each episode.  Specific trigger warnings are not given due to research reporting this makes triggers worse.  Please use appropriate self-care and your own safety plan while exploring this website and during your listening experience.  Natural pauses due to dissociation have not been edited out of the podcast, and have been left for authenticity.  While some professional material may be referenced for educational purposes, Emma and her system are not your therapist nor offering professional advice.  Any informational material shared or referenced is simply part of our own learning process, and not guaranteed to be the latest research or best method for you.  Please contact your therapist or nearest emergency room in case of any emergency.  This website does not provide any medical, mental health, or social support services. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In his memoir Feh, writer Shalom Auslander attempts to escape his biblical upbringing and carve his own path, with a little help from Kafka; poet and former professional Muay Thai fighter Simon Shieh reckons with trauma, masculinity, and the art of healing in his debut collection Master; and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson performs her single "Pawnshop" from her album Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?, live from the Pickathon festival. Plus, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello hear from our audience about the small, shameful things they grapple with. 

Shalom Auslander's book, Beware of God, is full of cautionary tales about faith, including the short story “Waiting for Joe,” in which two hamsters from very different theological viewpoints try to cope with the absence of their owner. It may seem farcical on the surface, it's a powerful call to interrogate our own faith (or lack thereof) and our image of God and remember that the God somebody hands you is never the only option.Join us Sundays for worship, LIVE! on-site and online via Zoom @ 10am ET. Connect at www.NeedhamUCC.org.---The Congregational Church of Needham strives to be a justice-seeking, peace-making, love-affirming, LGBTQ-welcoming, radically-inclusive congregation of the United Church of Christ in Needham, MA.Church is the practice.Love is the point.

23 september 2024: Ballet Kroket Special in de Kookhaven, live muziek met gastmuzikanten, proef van het eten in de opname. Lone in haar winkel met nordic heerlijkheden voor thuis & Dick achter de bar met oesters en gin. Mis het niet, claim je plek op: alles@balletkroket.nl Welkom bij aflevering 2 van het tweede seizoen van Ballet Kroket! We hebben het over alle dingen waarmee je het leven kunt vieren, versieren en verdiepen, kortom over alles op de lijn van ballet tot kroket. Host Francien Knorringa luisterde naar Richard Hawley en liet het volgende nummer horen: https://open.spotify.com/track/35lwFLEye94Jrzr84W7osi?si=a01e0783a4ac452f Kijk voor meer info op: https://www.richardhawley.co.uk Host Jannekee Kuijper zag de film The Fabulous Four. https://www.filmladder.nl/film/the-fabulous-four-2024. En de serie The Perfect Couple op Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81474158 Gids Bart Prinsen las Ignorance van Peter Burke: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300276503/ignorance/ En hij las Mother for Dinner van Shalom Auslander https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317743/mother-for-dinner-by-shalom-auslander/. En Farewell My Lovely van Raymond Chandler https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/26021/farewell-my-lovely-by-raymond-chandler/ In het forum bespreken we de dramaserie Laura H. Te zien op NPO start: https://npo.nl/start/serie/laura-h . Over Laura H. verscheen eerder het boek Laura H. Het Kalifaatmeisje van Thomas Rueb: https://dasmag.nl/product/laura-h/ En Audiocollectief maakte er deze podcast over: https://open.spotify.com/show/7gJrCQxHvVoPBSOTe7REBA Onze adverteerders zijn: Hermit Gin - de lekkerste gin die er is, gemaakt met Oosterscheldewater en nog een trits aan geheime ingrediënten, te koop bij Gall en Gall. www.hermitgin.com Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic, de lekkerste tonic voor de perfect serve van een gin tonic met Hermit Gin. https://fever-tree.com/nl_NL/products/mediterranean-tonic-water De Kookhaven - te gekke locatie aan de rafelrand van Amsterdam, geschikt voor al uw culinaire uitspattingen, van private dining tot kookworkshop, van vergadering tot culinair feestje. Iedereen viert weleens een feestje dat thuis of op kantoor niet past. Bespreek de mogelijkheden met uitbater Dick Ferwerda. www.kookhaven.nl Don Ostra - oestermannen Arend Bouwmeester (de jonge) en Dick Ferwerda serveren oesters en gin op geheel eigen wijze. Voor luisteraars van Ballet Kroket geldt een 99% glimlachgarantie. www.donostra.nl Lone Poulsen, de kok die uit het noorden kwam en private dinings en workshops verzorgt in het teken van de nordic cuisine. www.shecamefromnorth.com Adverteren in Ballet Kroket? Mail alles@balletkroket.nl Ballet Kroket wordt op maandagavond opgenomen in Studio Kookhaven in Amsterdam. Wil je een opname bijwonen? Dat kan iedere maandagavond. Vaak zie je dan ook de Ballet Kroket Huisband o.l.v. Arend Bouwmeester en Mathijs Goené. Mail alles@balletkroket.nl Of kijk op onze insta: https://www.instagram.com/balletkroket/ en stuur ons een DM. Abonneer je via je favoriete podcast-app op onze podcast dan vallen de nieuwe afleveringen vanzelf in je bibliotheek. Wil je ons helpen? Geef ons dan sterretjes, likes, duimpjes en recensies in jouw favoriete app! www.balletkroket.nl

Würde f*****g Google noch ansatzweise das tun, wofür es mal gebaut wurde, könnte ich hier in exaktem Wortlaut wie Quelle erzählen, das Sybille Berg mal irgendwo, irgendwann, irgendwie, gesagt hat, dass das Leben zu kurz sei, als dass man jedes angefangene Buch zu Ende lesen müsse. Und selbst wenn sie das nie gesagt hat und wehement opponierte: das Gebot ist richtig, ich lebe es! Und es ist doch auch so: das Weglegen eine Buches, oder, wie es sich heute äußert: das ein Buch in der Bibliotheksansicht auf dem E-Reader von immer mehr Werken überholt wird, bis es traurig und vergessen automatisiert gelöscht wird, muss überhaupt nichts mit der Qualität, der Interessantheit, der Brillanz eines Buches zu tun haben. “Es liegt nicht an Dir, es liegt an mir” sagt man leise in einer verrauchten Bar zu einer Lektüre, die man so hoffnungsvoll begann, die erste Seite, das erste Kapital so aufregend, so neu, man wollte das Ding heiraten. Aber irgendwas kam dazwischen, der Job, der Suff, man lernte eine Neue kennen und jetzt ist der Zauber vorbei und es bleibt nur der Abschied mit der Hoffnung, sich irgendwann mal wieder zu sehen. Literatur kennt keine Moral.Aber ein anderer wird vielleicht glücklich mit ihr und so nehme ich das zum Anlass, eine Sammelrezension - genau in der Mitte zwischen Lobpreisung und Verriss - zu verlautbaren, mit drei Werken, die mit unterschiedlichen Prozentzahlen in der Coverecke auf dem Kindle nach unten rutschen, obwohl sie das vielleicht nicht verdient haben.Beginnen wir mit einem Buch, auf welches ich mich wirklich, wirklich gefreut hatte: In 2019 hatte die Journalistin Taffy Brodesser-Akner ihren ersten Roman mit dem schon mal grandiosen Titel “Fleishman Is in Trouble” veröffentlicht (auf Deutsch: “Fleishman steckt in Schwierigkeiten”). Die rasante Story um eine New Yorker Middleclass Familie (also aus unserer Sicht “f*****g rich”) in der unten, oben, männlich, weiblich, richtig und falsch wild durcheinander gewirbelt werden, voller Überraschung und mit genau der richtigen Mischung aus jiddisch/jüdisch/amerikanischer Stereotypen und deren Brechen war der reine fun. Brodesser-Akners zweiter Roman ist gerade erschienen und verlegt die Story von Manhattan und Staten- nach Long Island, wo es titelgebend einen Kompromiss geben soll, einen “Long Island Compromise” also. Nicht ganz so toll als Titel, aber geheimnisvoll und ich verrate nicht zu viel, dass er was ganz anderes ist, als man denkt. Das Buch steht bei mir bei 42% und ich habe mich bisher eigentlich ganz gut amüsiert. Eine Entführungsgeschichte als Genesis, das Milieu diesmal deutlich mehr jüdische upper class, mit all dem Ballast, den der Holocaust auch in der vierten oder fünften Generation noch aufbürdet, wird er durch besagt Entführung eines Familienmitglieds nicht leichter. Brodesser-Akner nutzt das, um das Neuroselevel der zahlreichen handelnden Personen permanent zwischen 6 und 7 auf der nach oben offenen Woody-Allen-Skala zu halten, was zunächst ganz nett zu lesen ist. Der jüngste Sohn des Entführten, zum Zeitpunkt ein Baby, ist mit 40 ein reiches Wrack in L.A. und Brodesser-Akner hat ihren “Patrick Melrose” gelesen und fügt den in diesem epischen und von mir hochgelobten Epos gefundenen illegalen Substanzen ein paar mehr hinzu, mit denen sich der erfolglose Screenwriter das Hirn ruhig zu stellen sucht. Da kann Ottessa Moshfegh noch was lernen! Das Ganze geht ein glattes Drittel des Buches und ermüdet dann doch sehr und so wollen wir es schon weglegen, da kommt sein ältere Bruder in den Fokus, der das Kindheitstrauma mit anderen Formen der Neurose bewältigt und mich packte eine unendliche Müdigkeit ob der “Reiche haben auch Probleme” Vibes. Alles ist ein bisschen sehr Klischee (was ich doch eigentlich mag) und obwohl sich Veränderungen in der finanziellen Grundversorgung der Industriellenfamilie andeuten, bin ich zu erschöpft um dem noch folgen zu wollen. Der Lektor hätte ein bisschen Überzeugungsarbeit leisten sollen um Brodesser-Akners Zweitwerk auf den Speed und die Wendigkeit des Debüts zu kürzen, dann wäre es was mit uns geworden. Schade. Aber es ist noch kein endgültiger Abschied und damit kein Verriss.Sehr nah und doch so weit von Long Island entfernt ist ein Autor aufgewachsen, dessen Name wie ein Pseudonym klingt, es aber nicht ist, versichert uns Wikipedia: Shalom Auslander? No way, geh mir weg, so heißt doch keiner! Heißt er doch. Gestolpert bin ich über den Mann auf meinen Streifzügen durch die Welt der obskuren Newsletter und wenn ein solcher “Fetal Position” heißt, weckte das soviel Interesse und Bilder im Kopf, dass der subscribe Button fast unbewusst geklickt wurde. Und der Newsletter liefert. Neurosestufe noch mal über den fiktiven Helden von “Long Island Compromise”, muss hier jemand mit dieser Last tatsächlich leben und erzählt uns von seinen permanenten Ängsten ob der Welt, vor seinen Mitmenschen und überhaupt allem, mit dem einzigen was dagegen hilft: Humor. Hier: jüdischer. Auslander hat schon einige Bücher geschrieben, das ominös “Feh” genannte ist sein neuestes, soeben auf englisch erschienen. “Feh” ist jiddisch und, so philosophiert Auslander, kommt in der Torah so ziemlich auf der ersten Seite vor und beschreibt den ersten Eindruck, den Gott beim Anblick von Adam gehabt hat: “Feh”. Enttäuschung. Not good enough. Warum hätte er sonst eine Frau als Adam 2.0 geschaffen? Es ist dieselbe Enttäuschung, die Shalom Auslander bei allen Menschen spürt, die ihm begegnen, seitdem er in einer orthodoxen Schuul von der Story erfuhr. Während sich der Umgang mit diesem Gefühl in einem wöchentlichen Newsletter zum alltäglichen Wahnsinn auf dieser Welt sauber wegliest, ist das in dreißig Kapiteln, soviel verlangt uns der Autor ab, nur schwer zu ertragen. Ich versuche es immer wieder und obwohl ich über jeden Scheiß lachen kann, was zu genug Unruhe bei der Studio B Besatzung führt, bleibt dieses hier leider nach und nach aus. Aber vielleicht hilft es ja Leserinnen und Lesern, die ähnlich wie Auslander durch die Welt mäandern, mit dieser etwas milder ins Gericht zu gehen und denen soll dieses Buch gegönnt sein. Mir isses das nicht.Aus ganz anderen Gründen dropt in der Liste der vielleicht verschmähten Bücher ein, nein!, doch!, oh!, ja!, Neal Stephenson immer weiter nach unten. Diese Länge! Der Neal pullt hier einen Scorsese und lässt sich von niemandem vorschreiben, dass man eine Story, die man in drei Bände packen sollte, nicht auch in einen packen kann. Wenn ich mir vorstelle, wie wir vor Erfindung des E-Books mit so einem 800-Seiten-Kilo-Ding jeden morgen in der Straßenbahn gesessen hätten, über Wochen - das hätte doch keiner gemacht! Aber ein E-Book kostet keinem Baum das Leben und keinem Leser den Ischias, sagt sich Neal Stephenson, da brechen wir jetzt mal Rekorde. “Fall” (Deutsch: “Der Aufstieg und Fall des D.O.D.O.”) ist die Fortsetzung von “REAMDE”, hier rezensiert in 2011, aber wirklich, heiliges Ehrenwort von jemandem mit Alles-In-Reihenfolge-Lesen-Müssen-OCD, komplett ohne dieses lesbar. Ich muss das wissen, weil ich schon lange alles vergessen habe. Stephenson nimmt den Protagonisten aus dem ersten Buch und lässt ihn sterben. Das passiert im ersten Kapitel und damit ist das kein Spoiler. So sind die Regeln. Ich hab sie mir nicht ausgedacht. Was darauf folgt ist ein wirklich grandioser Speedrun durch die nähere Zukunft inklusive völlig aus dem Ruder laufender politischer Verhältnisse in den USA, virtueller Welten, Hirn-Maschine-Schnittstellen, Singularität, Religion, echt und ausgedacht, philosophischen Exkursen aus dem Halbfeld, es ist eine Messe! Aber so laaaaaang.. Ich bin bei 53% und habe hier, im Widerspruch zum Eingangs erwähnten Sybille Berg Zitat, tatsächlich immer wieder Gewissensbisse, das Ding nicht doch noch mal anzufassen. Ich sehe was Neal Stephenson hier macht, wie viele große, nein, riesige Gedanken, Weltbilder und Visionen er in ein Buch packt und obwohl beim Blick auf die reine Seitenzahl nicht zu vermuten, nicht ausufern lässt, gut und tight beisammenhält. Aber ich schaffe es zur Zeit einfach nicht, das Ding zu Ende zu bringen. “Fall” ist somit, obwohl in der Liste schon am längsten, das wahrscheinlichste Buch, welches ich zu Ende bringen werde, und damit haben wir am Ende denn doch eine minimal gespoilerte Lobpreisung.Und weil es heute soviel an Information gab nochmal zusammengefasst die besprochenen Werke: Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Long Island Compromise - so mäh..Shalom Auslander: Feh - so feh..Neal Stephenson: Der Aufstieg und Fall des D.O.D.O. - so YEAHHHHhhhhhhhhhmmmmnnnajaochmensch… This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lobundverriss.substack.com

Yascha Mounk and Shalom Auslander discuss the origins of the stories that make us feel bad about ourselves.  Shalom Auslander is an American novelist, memoirist, and essayist. He is the author of Foreskin's Lament and, most recently, FEH: A Memoir. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Shalom Auslander discuss how religious narratives inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition affect our sense of self-worth; how to actually help oneself while steering clear of "self-help"; and how to begin the lifelong work of charting a path towards unconditional love and self-acceptance. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With his amazing new book, FEH: A Memoir (Riverside Books), Shalom Auslander explores how the judgmental disgust of FEH infected his life, and what it meant to get sick & tired of the disgust and outrage FEH-stival and look for a way out. We talk about the sense of shame, disgust and self-loathing at the core of our common story, why every bookstore should be called, 'You Suck', his friendship with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and how they bonded over FEH, and how hard he's worked to find the un-FEH for his kids. We get into how story is our operating system (but what happens when there are bugs in the OS?), how the FEH machine came after his psychiatrist, the notion of misotheism, and his video series UNGODLY where he reads the Bible and asks, 'What if God is the antagonist?'. We also discuss his ultra-orthodox upbringing, how "Jewish heritage" has been subsumed by Holocaust memorials, his antipathy toward the pop-culture Anne Frank and how he rewrote her for HOPE: A Tragedy, his time in the advertising industry and how it led to his TV show Happyish, his bleak Peanuts parody strip that got Jeannie Schulz's approval, the neurological condition where blind people believe they can see and how it parallels our existential state of FEH, the realization that cynicism doesn't mean you're smart (just lazy), and a lot more. Subscribe to Shalom's Substack • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter

Humorist/writer Shalom Auslander's new memoir is a satirical look at all the ways a sense of "feh," which is Yiddish for "yuck," has made its way into his psyche and every aspect of his life. Auslander has written extensively over the years about growing up in a dysfunctional ultra-Orthodox Jewish family. His new memoir, aptly titled Feh, is about a journey to write a different story for himself.We'll also hear from Julianne Nicholson. Proud to call herself a character actor, she's appeared in dozens of films and TV series, from Ally McBeal and Boardwalk Empire to August: Osage County and Mare of Easttown, where she earned an Emmy. Nicholson is starring in the new film Janet Planet.And, Ken Tucker takes us back 50 years to Stevie Wonder's album Fulfillingness' First Finale, which he says is an underrated treasure.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Na estante desta semana está (distopia nº 1) o mais recente vencedor do prémio Man Booker: Canção do Profeta, de Peter Lynch; e (distopia nº 2) um estudo sobre o efeitos dos telemóveis nos adolescentes, em Geração Ansiosa, Jonathan Haidt; há um ensaio de Diogo Pires Aurélio sobre a ideia de um poder absoluto e intemporal, intitulado Soberania Popular; e ainda a memória pessoal, traumática, ainda sem edição portuguesa, do escritor americano Shalom Auslander, criado numa família de judeus ortodoxos; no original chama-se Feh, o que em ídiche significa "que nojo".  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Humorist/writer Shalom Auslander's new memoir is a satirical look at all the ways a sense of "feh," which is Yiddish for "yuck," has made its way into his psyche and every aspect of his life. Auslander has written extensively over the years about growing up in a dysfunctional ultra-Orthodox Jewish family. His new memoir, aptly titled Feh, is about a journey to write a different story for himself.We'll also hear from Julianne Nicholson. Proud to call herself a character actor, she's appeared in dozens of films and TV series, from Ally McBeal and Boardwalk Empire to August: Osage County and Mare of Easttown, where she earned an Emmy. Nicholson is starring in the new film Janet Planet.And, Ken Tucker takes us back 50 years to Stevie Wonder's album Fulfillingness' First Finale, which he says is an underrated treasure.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Shalom grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home. When he was seven, his grandmother offered him something small that made him rethink his entire relationship to religion.

Sari Botton is the author of And You May Find Yourself: Confessions of a Late-Blooming, Gen-X Weirdo and Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York. She's also the creator of Oldster, a Substack newsletter devoted to exploring the joys of getting older. (Her Oldster questionnaire was a direct inspiration for my starting this podcast.) Sari was my first ever guest on Finding the Throughline--I'm replaying her episodes this week. - The continuing ed class she took as a 20-something that lead to her personal writing career - The thing her uncle told her when she was 10 that sparked a lifelong fascination with growing older - Why she loves Substack—as both a writer and a reader - The thing about trusting your instincts that Shalom Auslander first told her in 2010 that it took her 10+ years to believe - The incredible power of writing annoying, non-work stuff down on your to-do list (even if you're already done it) - What she does to cheer herself up and clear her head - Her morning routine (including what exactly goes in her mug) If you want to hear these interviews in one, ad-free episode, become a paid subscriber at katehanley.substack.com. Full show notes available there, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Things today are waaayyyyy better than Things have ever been. Cavemen had sticks. In the Middle ages they had typhoid. We have iPhones and Hermann Miller chairs and shoes with air in the soles. Inside the soles! How do they get the air inside the soles??? We are living in the Golden Age of Things, in the Golden Empire of Things.” —Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position via Beckett Drove a Deux Chevaux I first encountered the Apple billboard a few days after Christmas. I was walking down Fourteenth Street in the Meatpacking district, and there it was—an Apple ad declaring “Newphoria!” in enormous print. We don't need newphoria. We need oldphoria, the joy in what already exists. We need simplephoria, the joy in streamlining. We need enoughphoria, the celebration that what we have and who we are is already enough. Newphoria, at least as it relates to running a small business, is not always all it's cracked up to be. Today's post is a crossover from Rolling in D

Late last year, the newsletter startup Substack came under fire when an article in The Atlantic boldly proclaimed the tech company "has a Nazi problem". Nazis, it was reported, were starting newsletters on Substack and spreading their hateful propaganda. While the existence and quantity of said Nazis remained the core issue, writer Shalom Auslander was struck by something else: were these people actually Nazis? Auslander wrote a piece for Tablet, published this week, in which he argues the word "Nazi" has all but lost its meaning, having been watered down to refer to most people with nationalist, xenophobic, extreme right-wing beliefs. He joins the show to lay out his argument for being more careful with words—especially for the People of the Book—and the danger in making the word "Nazi" synonymous with "racist asshole". And before that, Phoebe laments the lack of Jews in Only Murderers in the Building, the popular show on Disney+, which specifically takes place in one of the most Jewish parts of the Unites States. Credits Bonjour Chai is hosted by Avi Finegold and Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Zachary Kauffman is the producer and editor. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Socalled. The show is a co-production from The Jewish Learning Lab and The CJN, and is distributed by The CJN Podcast Network. Support the show by subscribing to this podcast, donating to The CJN and subscribing to the podcast's Substack.

[Sari Botton, Practical Matters]: The power of curiosity, offhand comments, and writing stuff you've already done on your to-do list This seed of the idea for Finding the Throughline: Conversations about the Creative Process, was first dropped by Sari Botton in her Substack publication Oldster Magazine—specifically, it was her Oldster Magazine Questionnaire, in which she asks creatives of all ages to answer the same dozen or so questions about what it means to grow older. I'm telling you, each time a new Oldster questionnaire lands in my inbox I drop everything and read it immediately. I love that even though I rarely know of the person who is answering the question (although sometimes I do—she's interviewed Elizabeth Gilbert and Neko Case, for instance), I am moved, enlightened, provoked, and delighted by their answers. Sari had to be my first interview, she just had to be. And thankfully, she responded with an enthusiastic yes within just a few minutes of my asking her to come on. In this episode, Sari spills the beans on the practical parts of her process, including: - The continuing ed class she took as a 20-something that lead to her personal writing career - The thing her uncle told her when she was 10 that sparked a lifelong fascination with growing older - Why she loves Substack—as both a writer and a reader - The thing about trusting your instincts that Shalom Auslander first told her in 2010 that it took her 10+ years to believe - The incredible power of writing annoying, non-work stuff down on your to-do list (even if you're already done it) - What she does to cheer herself up and clear her head - Her morning routine (including what exactly goes in her mug) If you want to hear these interviews in one, ad-free episode, become a paid subscriber at katehanley.substack.com (and get lots of other perks, too). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amelle reçoit celui pour qui tout le monde est capable de tout comprendre, si on situe la vanne. Haroun.La hantise de l'excès de parole et le besoin de rester en retrait pour se concentrer sur ce qu'on a envie de dire et la façon de clarifier son propos. Le partage de culture gratuite, la responsabilité qu'ont les humoristes de leurs blagues et la façon dont les gens en rient. La sur-bienveillance derrière laquelle se cache souvent du mépris. Avoir à coeur de parler de sujets sociétaux avec des références populaires. Aimer par-dessus tout l'écriture. L'acmée et comment se renouveler et faire mieux que le spectacle précédent. L'importance de s'intéresser aux générations qui suivent. La folie et la démesure des années 80. Les classiques de comédie avec des dialogues qui font la différence. Dans le désordre on parle de Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Yacine Belhousse, Alex Vizorek, Rédouane Bougheraba, Michel Blanc, Dave Chapelle, George Carling, Coluche, le Splendide, Johnny Hallyday, Charles Aznavour, I AM, Jacques Audiard… Mais aussi de Pasquinade, de La lamentation du prépuce de Shalom Auslander, Viens chez moi j'habite chez une copine, Marche à l'ombre, Les Bronzés, Le père Noël est une ordure, Affreux sales et méchants, Un air de famille, Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléôpatre, OSS 117, Cuisine et Dépendance ou encore Rocky.

Chair: Bob Carr The 20th century was deemed 'The American Century'. In more recent times, that title has been challenged by the might and power of China. Experts describe the new world order as multipolar. As America has turned inwards and its exceptionalism engendered skepticism, what are the ramifications? Is a world where spheres of influence are more balanced good for nation states, for their citizens and for collective international action? The Hon Bob Carr tests these propositions with Shalom Auslander, James Curran, John Keane and Fintan O'Toole. Event details: Tue 07 Mar, 3:45pm on the East Stage

Special guests: Shalom Auslander, Geoff Dyer, Louise Kennedy & Margot Saville Join Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski from ABC Radio's Conversations for a reading confessional. Whether it's airport novels, fan fiction, fantasy or cookbooks, Fidler and Kanowski will encourage their panel of special guests - Shalom Auslander, Geoff Dyer, Louise Kennedy and Margot Saville - to confront the brutal reality that is their reading life. Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 5:00pm on the East Stage

Chair: Sean French Shalom Auslander, author of the darkly funny Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir and Hope: A Tragedy, turns his satiric gaze to contemporary identity politics, family relationships and cannibalism in his latest novel. The outrageous premise of Mother for Dinner serves as a clever device to interrogate these themes in sharp, entertaining and often grotesque ways. Auslander joins us to talk about tribalism, mother issues and the crippling weight of history. Event details: Sat 04 Mar, 1:15pm on the West Stage

Chair: Bob Carr George Orwell said: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." The Public Square is a place we cherish in a democracy, so what is our response to ideas we might find upsetting, confronting, even provocative? Do we only converse with people who share our views? Or are we, as a civil society, able to listen to each other, reflect on the issue at hand and sometimes even change our deeply held beliefs? Joining the Hon Bob Carr for this important conversation are Shalom Auslander, Sarah Ferguson, David Hare and Mark Scott (via video). Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 9:30am on the East Stage

Dos viejas ante la cámara de la historia; El índice de abuelidad; Una vieja de mierda; Gloria Fuertes, la vieja más linda del mundo; “Esperanza, una tragedia”, de Shalom Auslander.

Si una noche de invierno "una vieja" Fecha: 13-10-2022 Buscá el episodio completo en este podcast y en El Destape Radio.

Cale discusses an opinionated essay from Shalom Auslander in which the author paints God as a monster.

Cale discusses an opinionated essay from Shalom Auslander in which the author paints God as a monster.

When The Economist published its best books list for 2021, “Mother for Dinner” by Shalom Auslander was among the featured. The magazine dubbed it a “laugh-out-loud, gravely serious satire on identity politics” during which “a mother's deathbed presents a solemn decision: whether or not to eat her. The family are Cannibal-Americans, the most reviled minority in a place where ‘everyone else was retreating to their cages and calling it freedom.' What, the novel asks uproariously, do individuals owe history?”In addition to “Mother for Dinner,” we discuss: >> The nature of God>> The author's split with his orthodox Jewish community>> Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and others>> The all-day writing regimen>> The quality lit coming from Iraq, Syria and other Middle East countries>> The folly of “knowing” Learn more about the author's other black comedies and idiosyncrasies at: https://www.shalomauslander.com/ Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol, author of “Hardwood: A Novel About College Basketball and Other Games Young Men Play,” and three yet-to-be-published manuscripts, including “Family Recipes: A Novel about Italian Culture, Catholic Guilt and the Culinary Crime of the Century,” “Lolita Firestone: A Supernatural Novel,” and the short story collection “Love American Style.” Write to him at novelistspotlight@gmail.com. We hope you will subscribe and share the link with any family, friends or colleagues who might benefit from this program.

In 2006 a friend of the actor and writer Lorien Haynes died. Haynes's grief has found unusual expression - in a romantic comedy starring Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel. In Good Grief the central character is dead. Director Natalie Abrahami has created an unusual hybrid of film and theatre, shot in what looks like a rehearsal studio, with a set of cardboard boxes - one marked 'cupboard'. Between scenes we see the crew setting lights and microphones. The critic Alice Saville reviews. Comic novelist Shalom Auslander talks to Tom about his latest novel, Mother for Dinner. Seventh Seltzer is a Cannibal-American who has done everything he can to break from his past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear the two words he always knew she would: Eat me. The book explores ideas of legacy, assimilation, the things we owe our families, and the things we owe ourselves. As the National Gallery in London announces plans for its 200th anniversary in 2024, we discuss how museums and galleries might be different in a post pandemic future. With National Gallery Director Gabriele Finaldi and David Anderson, Director of the National Museums of Wales. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Timothy Prosser

In this week’s Book Club podcast I am joined by one of the funniest writers working today. Shalom Auslander’s new novel is Mother For Dinner, which is set in perhaps the most oppressed minority community in the world. He talks to me about cannibalism, identity politics, his beef with tragedy... and an extremely high-risk prayer at the Wailing Wall.

In this week’s Book Club podcast Sam Leith is joined by one of the funniest writers working today. Shalom Auslander’s new novel is Mother For Dinner, which is set in perhaps the most oppressed minority community in the world. He talks to Sam about cannibalism, identity politics, his beef with tragedy... and an extremely high-risk prayer at the Wailing Wall.

I am really excited to bring you to today's guests actually since the moment I picked up his book, Foreskin Lament, last summer, I was stricken by this man's way of storytelling, his personal journey. As I began to learn more about him I found out there was a lot of which I related to him. We did grew up in similar backgrounds in Orthodox homes. And though his journey and specifics are very different from mine, there was a lot that I connected with and the way he expressed his feelings and his emotions. Shalom Auslander is an American novelist and author and he has written many essays, short stories, and a few novels, most recently, Mother For Dinner. I just finished reading Mother For Dinner and it's a fantastic creative novel, a great story which has many, many layers to it. I highly recommend you reading it. Shalom's work has been described, "Dark Jewish humor, as masochistic and taboo possible."On todays shows Shalom lets us delve into his process, what inspires him, his journey, his relationship with God, and several others of his releases. Shalom is a really real and raw human being, and it's really cool to have been shares to share space with him. You can click the links below to check out several of Shalom's writing and I highly recommend you purchase one of his books.Connect with ShalomWebsiteBuy Mother For DinnerDon't forget to subscribe to The Great Day PodcastAnd be sure to follow my Instagram page and Facebook page to stay up to date on everything I'm working on.I'm Meir Kay and Have A Great Day! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this season of Christmas cheer, Teresa and Gina tap into their Jewish roots to celebrate their beloved Hanukkah. Turns out it’s almost as simple as knowing the proper blessing for ice cream (thanks to Shalom Auslander on This American Life) and leaving the world a little nicer than you found it (Thanks to Krista Tippet on Speaking off faith). Happy Hanukkah, everybody.    Links: The Moth:  Evan Lunt, A Flame Through the Ages https://player.themoth.org/#/?actionType=ADD_AND_PLAY&storyId=15269   Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippet - Hanukkah and a Rediscovery of Jewish Customs https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hanukkah-and-a-rediscovery-of-jewish-customs/id387558213?i=1000086034938   This American Life: Hoaxing Yourself, Oedipus Hex  https://www.thisamericanlife.org/155/hoaxing-yourself-2000 Easy Ways To Support Easy Listening: https://www.gottasoul.com https://naturesoilsonline.com/ Butcher Box with Discount Code: https://www.butcherbox.com/easy/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=cpa&utm_campaign=&utm_term=easy&utm_content= Join the conversation on Facebook by searching "Easy Listening Podcast Family"

Jack and Cait talk Pete Buttigieg’s appearance/commercial on Jimmy Fallon’s show, Kanye’s Sunday Service at Coachella, turncoat WGA writer Shalom Auslander, and Jack finally agrees that he spends too much time on Twitter because he really thought ‘Die on a hill’ was a twitter thing when really, it’s like, a real life phrase that people use all the time OUTSIDE OF TWITTER!!!!! So anyway, he died on that hill. RIP Jack. #allegedly #inparody

This week on Unorthodox, we're celebrating the publication of The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List with an episode dedicated to Jewish food. Throughout the episode you’ll hear from contributors to the book—including Jill Kargman, Gil Hovav, Gail Simmons, Shalom Auslander, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs of Food52, and many more—who will be reading their entries. We talk to Tablet editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse, who edited the collection, as well as Gabriella Gershenson, who edited the recipes in the book. We also sit down with Dr. Beth Ricanati, the author of Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs, who tells us about the healing power of baking bread. Naama Shefi and Amanda Dell tell us about their work at the Jewish Food Society and their Schmaltzy storytelling events. Plus, Brette Warshaw explains the difference between corned beef and pastrami, listener Sonia Marie Leikam tell us about brewing kosher beer in Portland, and the story of a special pie delivery to Pittsburgh's Jewish community. Get your copy of The 100 Most Jewish Foods at Tabletmag.com/100JewishFoods. Tell us your Jewish food memories! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave a message at 914-570-4869. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook group to chat with the hosts and see what happens behind-the-scenes! Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. The music on today's episode is by the klezmer duo Farnakht. This episode is sponsored by Hebrew College. The Jewish community needs rabbis who are creatively engaging with Jewish tradition, and Hebrew College’s rabbinical school is currently accepting applications. Visit Hebrewcollege.edu/unorthodox to find out more. This episode is brought to you by Unorthodox Wine, offering beautiful kosher wines from South Africa. Get free shipping on any order when you visit bitly.com/unorthowine. This episode is brought to you KOL Foods, delivering the best tasting, healthiest, most sustainable, and most ethically raised meat anywhere! Go to KOLFoods.com and use the code UNORTHODOX to receive a 10 percent discount on your next order. Unorthodox is supported by the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, which is presenting Diaspora Songs: Yiddish Meets Ladino, Thursday, March 28, at 7:30 pm.  The event is a part of Carnegie Hall’s “Migrations, The Making of America Festival” and co-sponsored by The Yiddish Book Center. Visit jccmanhattan.org/music for tickets.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Francisco Cantú is a Mexican-American who served as an agent for the US Border Patrol in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. He joined Robin and Josie to talk about that experience and how it led him to write The Line Becomes a River, his new book on the horrors witnessed on the border. They also chat about the work of Jung, WG Sebald, Shalom Auslander and much more. Hear an extended version of this chat, and all other episodes, plus gets lots more bonus material by supporting the show at patreon.com/bookshambles. Without your support the show couldn't exist!

Des de les lletres, el cinema o el teatre, la cultura jueva ha sabut fer passar la seva idiosincr

Des de les lletres, el cinema o el teatre, la cultura jueva ha sabut fer passar la seva idiosincr

Dio è tutto. Talmente tutto che per l'uomo non resta più niente.L'ironia di Auslander in questo brevissimo assaggio.

Dio è tutto. Talmente tutto che per l'uomo non resta più niente.L'ironia di Auslander in questo brevissimo assaggio.

A son uncovers his father's collection of pornography and a woman learns to embrace her past. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Creator Shalom Auslander discusses Thom's trip to Los Angeles.

The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there.

With Mark Lawson. The Diary of Anne Frank is, for many, the book that best exemplifies the tragedy of the Jewish experience during World War II. Millions of school children read the book, which is seen as an important preventative reminder of the holocaust. In this Front Row special, writers including Shalom Auslander, Nathan Englander, Ellen Feldman, Meg Rosoff and Bernard Kops discuss why the life and writing of Anne Frank inspire writers of fiction. They also reflect on her continuing significance, while the actress Amy Dawson discusses how she approaches playing Anne on stage. Producer Ellie Bury.

This month on The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond invite award-winning UK author Robert Shearman to chat about his recent adventures at the Adelaide Writers' Week and the New Zealand International Arts Festival, as well as his ongoing and insanely impressive -- or impressively insane? -- One Hundred Stories project. Hilarity ensues. Highly personal details about Ian's sleeping habits are disclosed. Rob explains why he writes like an uber-caffeinated monkey. Kirstyn edits none of it out. Mwaohahaha. Around the 27:15 mark, the conversation meanders over to Rob's recommended book, Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander. Despite the fact that it's quite a new book, the trio are relentlessly free and easy with the spoilers, so skip ahead if you'd rather not hear how the book ends. Or begins. Or what happens in the middle. They then move on to discussing the two official podcast books: Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub (beginning at 1:00:30), picked by Kirstyn, and Queenpin by Megan Abbott (1:31:30) which was Ian's recommendation. Yes, it's another looooong episode. You're welcome! Tune back in around the 01:53:45 point for final remarks (and possibly some out-of-tune singing). Next month, Ian has recommended When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger while Kirstyn has picked The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun! * Vale Paul Haines Paul Haines, a well-known and much-loved member of the Australian spec fic community, passed away on Monday 5th March, 2012. Paul was a generous, funny and all-around amazing human being, as well as being an astonishingly good writer – truly, one of our best. He will be sorely missed by those who knew him and by those who only met him through his words. Paul's work is dark, disturbing, confronting and, more often than not, piss funny to boot. If you've not yet had the pleasure, please track down his collections: The Last Days of Kali Yuga (Brimstone Press, 2011) Slice of Life (The Mayne Press, 2010) Doorways for the Dispossessed (Prime, 2006) Thank you, Paul. Travel safe.

Playwright Errol John re-assessed; comedian Sarah Millican; Caitlin Moran and Antonia Fraser on recording audio versions of their books; author Shalom Auslander; screenwriter Paula Milne on new TV show White Heat; Naomi Alderman focuses on video games.

In the new film This Means War, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine play two CIA agents waging an epic battle against each other when they find they are dating the same woman, played by Reese Witherspoon. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews. Radio 4 is inviting you to nominate New Elizabethans - people who have made an impact on the UK from 1952 to today. This week Front Row is asking writers and artists for their suggestions, and tonight novelist Ian Rankin nominates a pioneering English singer and songwriter who had a habit of reinventing himself. The award-winning screen-writer Paula Milne talks about her new six-part TV drama White Heat, starring Juliet Stevenson and Lindsay Duncan. The series charts the lives of seven characters who share a student flat in 1960's London and follows their interwoven lives up to the present. Shalom Auslander's novel, Hope: A Tragedy, is a satirical exploration of what it would mean to find an elderly Anne Frank living in one's attic. The novel examines the burden of history and remembrance for the Jewish community. Shalom Auslander discusses why he wasn't afraid of portraying a revered historical figure. Producer Jerome Weatherald.

Joining Jonathan Freedland in a Jewish Book Week special are guests Shalom Auslander, Etgar Keret, Meg Rosoff and David Schneider

This week: Sketch duo Tim & Eric tell us the secret to comedy… Lucinda Williams on etiquette and (non) barbecuing… Chuck Klosterman tackles football… Shalom Auslander’s words about last words… CNN’s Kat Kinsman talks about not talking about “bone luging”… And the science of “disgusting.” Plus, a running joke, your letters, and new Shins.

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What if the Holocaust’s most famous victim hadn’t died in Bergen-Belsen but had continued living in hiding, moving furtively from attic to attic, until she found herself a perch in a house in upstate New York? That’s the premise of Hope: A Tragedy, the new novel by Shalom Auslander. It follows Solomon Kugel, the owner of the house, who discovers an ancient, haggard Anne Frank upstairs struggling to finish a follow-up to her famous diary. Kugel is put-upon; his marriage is strained, he flails at work, and his mother, who lives with him, is obsessed with Jewish persecution and pretends that she herself was a victim of the Nazis. In addition, Kugel is in ongoing conversation with a guru who posits that nothing good ever comes of optimism. The novel, Auslander’s first, is both entertaining and disconcerting and Auslander, a

Shalom Auslander reads from his memoir, Foreskin's Lament, followed by a Q and A session with moderator, Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation, and the audience. Auslander discusses the abuse of religious authority he experienced as a child and how that informs his current professional and personal life and why he chose memior and not fiction to tell his story. Recorded in the BAM Lepercq Space as part of the Eat, Drink and Be Literary reading series. Presented in partnership with BAM. www.nationalbook.org