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Nathan Englander
Feb 9 2012 7:30 pm
Thursday, February 9, 7:30 PM
Brooklyn author Nathan Englander discusses his new story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories with novelist Colum McCann
Brooklyn-based and critically-acclaimed author Nathan Englander joins us at Greenlight to discuss his new collection of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank with friend and fellow novelist Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin. These eight new stories display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, written with a command of language and imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction. The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. In the outlandishly dark “Camp Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a father to a son. Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander’s work is a revelation.
Location:
- Street:
- 686 Fulton Street
- City:
- Brooklyn ,
- Province:
- New York
- Postal Code:
- 11217
- Country:
- United States
