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  • Eating Olives at the End of the World

    “They bought everything,” she murmured, “all that’s left is menstrual pads and pickles.”

  • Writers can jam too

    Benjamin Percy reads “The Story, Victorious” [for the first time] at the Distinguished Writers Series, Wellesley College, November 2014

  • "One Gram Short"

    If it weren’t for Avri, I’d never agree, but he keeps telling me that this is our chance and that it’s not like we’re doing something dangerous or breaking the law. Smoking dope is illegal, but screaming at an Arab who ran over a little girl — that’s not only legal, it’s downright normative.

  • "Chips"

    “My mom always says that ‘thank you’ are the only two words in the language that can never hurt,” I said. “So let your mom blow you,” Vered said and smiled, and I thought: what a day.

  • "Unzipping"

    ‘I’m sorry,’ he went on, turning paler, ‘I must have bitten you. You know, in the heat of passion.’ ‘Never -ind,’ she smiled at him, the ice cube to her lower lip, ‘no-ing ha-ened.’ Which was a lie, of course. Because some-ing had ha-ened.

  • "Creative Writing"

    The instructor, who was supposed to be this well-known writer, even though Aviad had never heard of him, told her that there was something soul-piercing about the banality of the ending, or some other piece of crap. Aviad saw how happy that compliment made Maya.

  • "Streets of Rage"

    Streets of Rage by Robot Genius. Based on a comic book by Keret and Asaf Hanuka.

  • Selected Shorts

    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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  • "Cramps"

    That night I dreamt that I was a forty-year old woman, and my husband was a retired colonel. He was running a community center in a poor neighborhood, and his social skills were shit.

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