Etgar Keret
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Fat Cats - by Etgar Keret - Tablet MagazineEhud Olmert [accused of graft] , like the author's son, believes in the feline defense: "I'm a cat, not a regular person, and the rules don't apply to me"
"$9.99" Coming to DVD in the USA on February 23, 2010E1 Entertainment will be releasing $9.99 on DVD on February 23, 2010.
Rare audio appearance of Etgar Keret's mom on "This American Life" radio show[Around 32:00] Nostra-mom-us: When it comes to predictions, Etgar Keret only trusts one person in his family: his mom. She's amazingly accurate. Listen to her predictions for 2010.
Middle East quagmire had another good year -- Etgar Keret for latimes.comThe rules were simple: People placed bets on where the next attack in Israel would take place. If you got it right, you could make a killing.
A Christmas card from Etgar Keret
English translation by Sondra Silverston
Swedish translation by Nina Lekander
Happy holidays
Hd.se: "Hilarious revelations"A review of "Goda intentioner" (good intentions) - a new collection of short stories by Etgar Keret translated to the Swedish language
Голосовать Этгар Керет
Russian speaking Etgar Keret fans, please vote for him at the "Reading St. Petersburg 2009: choose the best foreign writer" poll (Читающий Петербург 2009: выбираем лучшего зарубежного писателя).
In a booknik.ru article about Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Reading St. Petersburg 2009" project, they say Keret is doing pretty well so far in the polls, but of course it's too early to tell the outcome.
If you're a Russian speaking fan of Etgar Keret, it's a good time to show your support. If you are not yet familiar with Russian translations of his stories, you can listen to two of them: Разбить поросенка (Breaking the pig), and Лето 76-го (The summer of '76), and hopefully you'll become a fan too.
Photo by Simon (at a book reading in Moscow, November 2009)
נא להפיץ את המצגת. יש גם גירסאות אופן-אופיס, ופאוורפוינט
ונסיים בחידה, מי אמר: אף אזרח לא יסכים מרצונו הטוב, להפוך חלק מהמאגר הביומטרי
The French version of the "$9.99" DVD is available on amazon.fr
”Goda intentioner” ("Good Intentions"), a collection of short stories by Etgar Keret translated to Swedish was recently published.
Here's an interview with Etgar Keret by Dn.se (Swedish language)
לא קשור ישירות לאתגר, אבל אם לא תדע - איך תבוא
סצינה מתוך הסרט
סצינת סקס
לחימום יוקרן "עובר ושב". סרט קצר, אך דחוס
Audio: 2 stories by Etgar Keret in Russian
- Разбить поросенка (Breaking the pig)
- Лето 76-го (The summer of '76)
Audio: Story by Keret on "This American Life" podcastOnce again, a never before published story is available in audio thanks to Ira Glass.
In Episode 393 of his show "This American Life", around 52:00, Actor Matt Malloy reads Keret's new story "Mystique"
חדש: הסיפור "מיסטיק" בעברית
Live event: Ira Glass and Etgar Keret - Is Reality Overrated?
In a New York Public Library's Live from the NYPL event, "This American Life" host Ira Glass talks with writer Etgar Keret about his short fiction and films, runaway piggy banks, bus drivers and other, lesser gods.
Around 31:00, Keret reads a never-published-before story about telling a story at gun point.
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Australian Sunday Morning Herald: Writer plots pathways into puzzle of Israeli lifeWhen Keret presented Jellyfish at Yale University, six Jews in the audience walked out halfway through the screening, screaming that he was an anti-Zionist, self-hating Israeli. Their gripe was a scene in the film that showed a couple that kept having to change from one sleazy Tel Aviv hotel to another. "They thought I was presenting Israel as a shitty country with shitty hotels so no tourists would come here and yelled out that it was no wonder I got French financing for the film because the French hate Jews."
The reverse was true in Italy, where the film was strongly criticised for being anti-Palestinian because it portrayed a Palestinian director who did a bad job of directing a Shakespeare play.
Requiem for a Dream - Tablet Magazine"That makes sense," I told Uzi. "But what do I do to make sure that that nightmare doesn't come back, see a psychologist?"
"That won't do you any good," he interrupted. "... What you need isn't a bunch of lies from a Ph.D. in clinical psych.
You need a real solution: a nest-egg in a foreign bank account. ..."
Fairfield County Weekly's Etgar Keret, with "Jellyfish" and "Wristcutters: A Love Story", is fast becoming a favored supplier of quirky plots for indie filmmakers. With the imaginative, intertwining stories in "$9.99", it's easy to see why.
Download "Star Tribune's Colin Covert reviews "$9.99""$9.99" marries the tradition of Jewish self-flagellating humor with uncanny absurdity. The film shows us miracles coexisting with the mundane, a tone of disorienting everyday oddness that is equal parts "Seinfeld," Kafka and Gumby.
Phillly.com $9.99 review: Themes of hope, angst, masterfully molded in clayUsing the medium of Wallace and Gromit and Gumby, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal turns her clay figures into real people in $9.99, a wise, wistful study of hope and dread
WNYC - Selected Shorts: Strange But True: Aimee Bender and Etgar Keret (July 26, 2009)A special evening at Symphony Space celebrated the startling fiction of two young authors, the American Aimee Bender, and the Israeli Etgar Keret.
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SFGate:"$9.99" has a broad appeal, but fans of quality low-tech animation are going to be blown away.
Nominees Announced for the 2009 Shirley Jackson AwardsCOLLECTION
A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa (Picador)
The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
More about the Shirley Jackson awards for "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic" at wikipedia
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