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Imagination and Memory, hosted by Michael Stuhlbarg

Monday, March 7, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
The Public Theater, New York

The evening will explore Anne Frank's legacy and Holocaust literature today, and is being presented in conjunction with the Public's production of Rinne Groff's Compulsion, which is inspired by Meyer Levin, the journalist and screenwriter who helped publicize the existence of Anne Frank's diary. Groff will be one of the featured guests, with participants also including author Francine Prose, novelist and short story writer Nathan Englander, and literary critic Ruth Franklin. -From THEATERMANIA

The Ministry of Special Cases

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“A mesmerizing rumination no loss and memory, spun out with a fabulism that recalls Isaac Bashevis Singer….Masterly.” -Los Angeles Times

“Who si this Nathan Englander, so young in novelist years, but already possessed of an old master’s voice?...One reads this novel in awe of Englander’s talent.” -The New York Times Book Review

“Englander seems almost like a literary movement by himself.” -San Francisco Chronicle

“I guess this is truly what they mean when they say a novel is long awaited, because I have been waiting for this novel ever since I read Englander’s short-story collection in (whenever). And worth waiting for — an amazing amalgam of wit and heart-stopping suspense, with a cast of characters I fell in love with. Once again, a description of the plot doesn’t begin to convey what Englander manages to do with Argentina in the time of the Disappeared. When I began to near the end of the book, I became truly miserable, and when I was done, I reread the last 50 pages not once but twice — partly in the hope that I could make it turn out differently, and partly because I couldn’t bear that it was over.” -Nora Ephron, from Ready Any Good Books Lately? in The New York Times Book Review 

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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

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“Taut, edgy, sharply observed….A revelation of the human condition.” -The New York Times Book Review

“Englander’s voice is distinctly his own—daring, funny and exuberant.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 

“Pitch-perfect....[Englander’s] wit has glimpses of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow; its subtlety recalls James Joyce’s Dubliners.” -Newsweek

“Extraordinary, insightful writing. Englander is a fresh, awe-inspiring voice.” -San Francisco Chronicle

“Remarkable art….The author fills each of these pieces with vivid life, with characters that jump off the page.” -Newsday

“One of the classiest, most assured, impressive literary debuts I’ve come across in ten years of reviewing books….The many voices...[Englander] has give life to in this collection earn this gifted writer a distinct and distinguished niche of his own.” -Susan Miron, The Philadelphia Inguirer

Reviews

Men in Black, by James E. Young; The New York Times Book Review
Captured in Stories, The World He Left; For Author's Debut, Tales of Orthodox Jews by Mel Gussow, The New York Times

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The Fabulist

Deborah Solomon interview for the New York Times Sunday Magazine

The Book Bench

An interview with New Yorker fiction editor Cressida Leyshon.

Like Man and Wife, New Yorker Fiction Podcast

Viridis SomnioNathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Disguised” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

Everything I Know About My Family on My Mother's Side, from Esquire

Roderick MillsA short story from Esquire Magazine.

Short Story: Free Fruit for Young Widows, from The New Yorker

Emmanuel GuibertThe story. And an accompanying interview with New Yorker fiction editor Cressida Leyshon.