Shalom Auslander's Books
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Beware of GodShalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's...Read More
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New Yorker, April 17, 2013
...? I think Bieber can be forgiven for thinking of Anne as someone who?s still breathing. The writer Shalom Auslander dubbed Anne Frank ?the Jewish Jesus,? and like Jesus, Anne Frank is constantly being resurrected. Anne?s defenders seem not to understand...
Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...and half Jacques Derrida). Contemporary American fiction has plenty of practitioners in this vein: Junot Díaz , Lydia Millet , Shalom Auslander , Karen Russell and many others. Contrary to Damien Walter's view of the list , I'm proud that we have...
Huffington Post, March 29, 2013
...aren't trailers in the traditional sense - Zach Galifianakis interviewing John Wray about his novel Lowboy, or Shalom Auslander calling Sarah Vowel and Ira Glass and asking to hide in their attics a la Anne Frank, which he did as part of an online series...
Examiner.com, March 26, 2013
...that appear inevitable in retrospect, amid the cycle of life and death.” Kirkus Reviews "Hope: A Tragedy", by Shalom Auslander “A family man suffers from money woes, a judgmental spouse and a hectoring mother. But things don't get really funny...
The Independent, March 8, 2013
...as for Davíd, the numbers never quite add up. A victor with chutzpah – and a Tudor romp Shalom Auslander has won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for his scabrously funny novel Hope: A Tragedy, in which anxious Solomon Kugel moves to a quiet town...
Guardian.co.uk, March 1, 2013
...Shalom Auslander tore up the etiquette book as he picked up a literary prize earlier this week. But he's not the first writer to go off-script ... The judges can hardly...
Booktrade - Book2Book, February 28, 2013
...Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy wins the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize for Jewish Literature Picador...
Daily Beast, January 16, 2013
...Shalom Auslander grapples with the news that his favorite rabbi from high school has fled the US, accused of molesting students: [T]hat’s what makes this whole sordid tale so personally...
Cleveland Live, January 11, 2013
...It's easy to imagine that Shalom Auslander topped everyone in grade school when it came to telling dead baby jokes. Such early practice would have prepared him to write Hope: A Tragedy , an audaciously offensive, very...
One News Page, January 1, 2013
...LIKE us now: Current Topics Staff Stories Recent related news The literary highlights of 2012. *Hope: a Tragedy* Shalom Auslander, Picador, 352pp, £7.99 Solomon Kugel, the protagonist of Shalom Auslander’s... New Statesman 2 days ago -...
One News Page, December 31, 2012
...The literary highlights of 2012. *Hope: a Tragedy* Shalom Auslander, Picador, 352pp, £7.99 Solomon Kugel, the protagonist of Shalom Auslander’s scabrously funny debut novel is a Jewish New Yorker transplanted to the countryside upstate. Kugel...
New Statesman, December 31, 2012
...The literary highlights of 2012. Hope: a Tragedy Shalom Auslander, Picador, 352pp, £7.99 Solomon Kugel, the protagonist of Shalom Auslander’s scabrously funny debut novel is a Jewish New Yorker transplanted to the countryside upstate. Kugel...
South China Morning Post, December 30, 2012
...Chia Chi and other memorable female protagonists who create their own lives (and loves). Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander. First you laugh out loud, then you think a lot. This comic novel brilliantly takes on - believe it or not - the Holocaust. ...
Spectator, December 28, 2012
...Mothers and Other Lovers (1994) and Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs (2009). James Walton In Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy (Picador, £7.99), Solomon Kugel moves from New York to the country as a way of escaping Jewish history — only to...
