Shalom Auslander, Fiction Writer and Memoirist-- Reading

Ex-Orthodox Jew, humorist, and contributor to NPR’s This American Life, Auslander earned notoriety and praise for Beware of God: Stories (2005), and Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir (2007). His novel, Hope: A Tragedy (2012), tells of a man who finds— living in his upstate New York home— an old woman who claims to be Anne Frank. Publishers Weekly said, “Cultural anthropologists trying to figure out if there really is a recognizably Jewish voice and sense of humor ... should consider this debut novel.”