Riverhead Book's New York Times Notable Books!

Congrats to Junot Diaz and This Is How You Lose her and Shalom Auslander and Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel! Both are on the New York Times Notable Book list for 2012! See the full list here.

Los Angeles Magazine chooses two Riverhead titles as must-reads for January

Shalom Auslander’s “endlessly amusing” Hope: A Tragedy and Andreas Kluth’s “fascinating” Hannibal and Me are two of Los Angeles Magazine’s Critic’s Picks for January. To read the reviews and see the full list of picks, click here.  

The New York Times on Shalom Auslander's "staggeringly nervy" novel Hope: A Tragedy

"Other fiction writers have gotten this fresh with Anne Frank. But they don’t get much funnier.... He is an absurdist with a deep sense of gravitas. He brings to mind Woody Allen, Joseph Heller and — oxymoron here — a libido-free version of Philip Roth... It’s a tall order for Mr. Auslander to raise an essentially comic novel to this level of moral contemplation. Yet Hope: A Tragedy succeeds shockingly well." Read more...

The Los Angeles Times on Shalom Auslander's "scabrously funny" Hope: A Tragedy

"Willfully outrageous, a black humorist with an Old Testament moralist's heart." Read more...

Shalom Auslander chooses a title for his new novel in The Paris Review

Hope: A Tragedy is Shalom Auslander's new novel, but the journey to that title was a long one as Shalom writes in The Paris Review. Read the entire essay...

Shalom Auslander in Tablet Magazine

This is what we’ve been doing instead of reading Shalom Auslander’s brilliant new manuscript.

Shalom Auslander's Foreskin's Lament

 

 

What Potty Training His Son Taught Shalom Auslander About Writing

Shalom Auslander, author of Foreskin's Lament, discusses writing and how it might relate to potty training (particularly when your novel's about the Holocaust) in Tablet.

Shalom Auslander at the United Kingdom’s Jewish Book Week

 

Shalom Auslander, author of Foreskin’s Lament, and A.L. Kennedy on God-wrestling at the United Kingdom’s Jewish Book Week.

Shalom Auslander on This American Life

Shalom Auslander, author of Foreskin’s Lament, has a new story in last weekend’s This American Life. Tune in to hear his tale of finding the fall guy.