Video: Etgar Keret lu par Mathieu Amalric (via Esti)
In the ER they said the bone was fractured and the muscle was nearly torn in two places. Some people, the doctor said, can walk away from a 50-mile-an-hour head-on collision without a scratch. Once there was this woman who arrived in the ER, a fat lady who’d fallen out of her third-floor apartment onto the asphalt, and all she had was a black and blue mark on her backside. It’s all a matter of luck. Which she, apparently, didn’t have much of.
The This American Life radio show from March 4th is dedicated to the perils of giving and receiving presents. Michael Chernus reads Keret's "What Of This Goldfish Would You Wish?".
This last sentence was all Avichai needed to take the outstretched hand and shake it.
For the first time in his life, someone owed him a favor. Someone who thought his name was Meir, but still.
Forty seconds before Shkedi expired, an angel appeared, all dressed in white, and told him he’d been awarded a last wish. Shkedi tried to find out what “awarded” implied. Was it an award like winning the lottery or was it something a bit more flattering: Awarded in the sense of an achievement, in recognition of his good deeds?
Illustration: Matt McCann
Selected shorts is a WNYC radio show where actors read short stories to a live audience.
"The World of Etgar Keret" (October 2nd 2011) features 4 of his stories:
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"Loss and Recovery" (September 25th) begins with Leonard Nimoy reading "Good Intentions":
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