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Shalom Auslander

Shalom Auslander
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Shalom Auslander

Shalom Auslander was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Spring Valley, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire and has had stories aired on NPR's This American Life. He lives in New York City.

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Excerpt 1 from Beware of God
Dec 07, 2012
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Introduction from Beware of God
Mar 09, 2009
Beware of God will be released on November 01, 2007 in
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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...
Edit Hot, May 2, 2013
...atípico Primera Persona, dirigido por Kiko Amat y Miqui Otero, reúne a artistas y escritores como Junot Díaz, Shalom Auslander o la banda favorita de Kurt Cobain...
Stourbridge News, April 27, 2013
...Brian McGilloway 2 The Perfect Retreat, Kate Forster 3 The French House, Nick Alexander 4 Hope: A Tragedy, Shalom Auslander 5 Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn 6 The Magpies: A Psychological Thriller, Mark Edwards 7 Austenland, Shannon Hale 8...
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...