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In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, David is joined by comedian Alex Edelman for a special Purim discussion exploring the place of humor and levity in a world that often demands our solemnity. A Modern Orthodox Jew from Brookline, Massachusetts, who's “tried cocaine,” but has “never tried bacon,” Alex stars in the one-man Off Broadway show Just For Us, which has to be one of the only top-tier comedy specials to mention Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.In this episode, we discuss: —How does a Modern Orthodox kid become a mainstream professional comic? —What makes particularly Jewish stories resonate so much with wider audiences? —Why hasn't he left traditional Judaism amid his secular fame? Tune in to hear how a bona fide star holds onto both his humor and his values to bare to the world his authentic self. Interview begins at 26:56. Alex Edelman is a product of Massachusetts's Maimonides School and has been featured on Conan and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In 2020, he was the head writer and executive producer of the “Saturday Night Seder” YouTube extravaganza, which raised over $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund. His show Just For Us is running at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City. While nights tend to sell out quickly, tickets are available here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35583/production/1107251. References: The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer Is It Funny for the Jews? by Jason Zinoman Here All Along by Sarah HurwitzMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander Baseball as a Road to God by John Sexton
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Pages 79 - 85 │ Calypso, part III │ Read by Nathan EnglanderNathan Englander is the author of the novels The Ministry of Special Cases, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, and kaddish.com, and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international best seller, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives with his family in Toronto.nathanenglander.comFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathanenglanderFollow on Instagram: : https://www.instagram.com/nenglander*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Spotify here: https://anchor.fm/sandcoSubscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/Photo of Nathan Englander by Joshua Meier See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international best seller, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and the novels The Ministry of Special Cases, Dinner at the Center of the Earth and kaddish.com. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. His play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, premiered at the Public Theater in 2012. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
This week, Abigail Pogrebin interviews author Nathan Englander, as part of Abby’s ongoing series at the JCC, What Everyone’s Talking About. Nathan Englander is author of the novels Dinner at the Center of the Earth, The Ministry of Special Cases, and kaddish.com. He’s responsible for the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Englander’s short fiction has been widely anthologized, including in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience on April 17, 2019.
Nathan Englander, whose latest novel is “kaddish.com,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. The author of two other novels, including “Ministry of Special Cases,” and two acclaimed short story collections, “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” talks about his latest book, which deals with the intersection of religion and technology, as a religious Jew who can't bring himself to say Kaddish for his late father every day contracts with an on-line company that will do it for him. The post Nathan Englander: “kaddish.com” appeared first on KPFA.
Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. In addition to his widely anthologized short fiction, he is the author of the novels The Ministry of Special Cases and Dinner at the Center of the Earth. In Kaddish.com, to his Orthodox family's dismay, an atheist refuses to say the Jewish prayer for the dead for his recently departed father.. ''Historical fiction that unfolds with the urgency of a thriller'' (Newsweek), Thomas Mallon's acclaimed novels include Dewey Defeats Truman, Watergate, and Fellow Travelers, which was adapted into a popular opera. For this work he has earned Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style. Landfall is a fictionalized account of the stormy George W. Bush years between 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. (recorded 3/27/2019)
Watch the video here. A ''fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion'' (NPR), Nicole Krauss is the bestselling author of the acclaimed novels Man Walks into a Room, The History of Love, and Great House. Named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and The New Yorker's ''20 Under 40,'' she is the winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and a finalist for the National Book Award, among many other honors. In Forest Dark, Krauss interweaves the disparate paths of an older lawyer and a young novelist searching for transcendence in an Israeli desert. Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. In addition to his widely anthologized short fiction, he is the author of the novel The Ministry of Special Cases, a play titled The Twenty-Seventh Man, and works that have appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post, among other places. In his new novel, Englander illustrates the Israeli–Palestinian conflict via a political thriller that hinges on the complicated relationship between a guard and his secret prisoner. (recorded 9/14/2017)
In conversation with Ben McNally, Nathan Englander – Pulitzer Prize-finalist and the best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges – will discuss his latest novel, Dinner at the Centre of the Earth. A political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the novel pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. For more information, visit kofflerarts.org
Nathan Englander is the author of the novels Dinner at the Center of the Earth and The Ministry of Special Cases, and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank—finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His short fiction has been widely anthologized, most recently in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. Englander's play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, premiered at The Public Theater in 2012. He translated the New American Haggadah and co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly a Knock on the Door. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Englander burst on the literary scene in 1999 with For The Relief of Unbearable Urges, a story collection that earned him the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kauffman Prize. His first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, set during Argentina’s Dirty War, came out in 2007. And this year finds Englander […] The post Nathan Englander : What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank appeared first on Tin House.
A writer moves to Jerusalem determined to be part of the peace process.Nathan Englander is the author of the novel “The Ministry of Special Cases”, and the internationally bestselling story collection, “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges”. 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
From the celebrated author of “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges”, a stunning historical novel—his first—set in Buenos Aires at the start of Argentina’s Dirty War. This program was presented by ALOUD.
Nathan Englander "For; the Relief of Unbearable Urges" (Knopf)Jewish-American fiction takes a riveting new direction in the work ofNathan Englander, who was brought up Hasidic on Long Island. Thetwenty-nine year old writer breaks your heart when he reads from his story"The; Tumblers."