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Nathan Englander

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Long Island, NY, The United States

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http://www.nathanenglander.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

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Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1999. The volume won widespread critical acclaim, earning Englander the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kauffman Prize, and established him as an important writer of fiction.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

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Average rating: 3.79 · 30,075 ratings · 3,956 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank 3.74 avg rating — 8,310 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the Relief of Unbearable Urges 3.93 avg rating — 3,183 ratings — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ministry of Special Cases 3.69 avg rating — 3,366 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dinner at the Center of the Earth 3.63 avg rating — 3,003 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	kaddish.com 3.32 avg rating — 2,897 ratings — published 2019 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McSweeney's Issue 28 (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, #28) 3.67 avg rating — 272 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twenty-seventh Man: A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander, Paul Michael 3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Fruit for Young Widows 3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Electric Literature No. 6 by Nathan Englander, Matt Sumell (Goodreads Author), Mary Otis 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tumblers: A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander, Arthur Morey 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.”
― Nathan Englander

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“How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.”
― Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

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“Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.”
― Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases

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