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.
"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...
"Willfully outrageous, a black humorist with an Old Testament moralist's heart." Read more...
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...
This is what we’ve been doing instead of reading Shalom Auslander’s brilliant new manuscript.
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, 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.
Three Riverhead authors offer up their Summer Flings in New York Magazine’s Summer Issue. Julie Klam (author of Please Excuse My Daughter), Shalom Auslander (author of Foreskin’s Lament) and Geoff Nicholson (author of The Lost Art of Walking) get steamy.
