Nathan Englander's Blog

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Symphony Space, New York

"A discussion and reading with these two writers, who are friends, will open this series of readings of short stories; also taking part will be the actor Michael Stuhlbarg, who had roles in Ethan and Joel’s Coen’s 2009 film “A Serious Man” and Martin Scorsese’s recent “Hugo” and is now appearing in the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire.” Mr. Englander’s new book of short fiction, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” (Knopf), is due in early February. Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400, selectedshorts.org; $27, or $15 for those 30 and younger." From The New York Times

Happy to say that Tony Award Winner, Bill Irwin (aka Mr. Noodle from Elmo's World, but I love him in "My Blue Heaven") will be reading a story as well.

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Wednesday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Goodhart Music Room, Bryn Mawr College, PA

Posting this after the fact...but I had a wonderful time out at Bryn Mawr, both speaking in class with their fabulous students and at the public reading that night. Thankful to have been invited. The rest of their very wonderful reading series is listed here.

When the fine folk at Electric Literature publish a story, they commission a short animation inspired by a single sentence. This one is based on a line from "The Reader" which will appear in Electric Literature #6. It was animated by the amazing Drew Christie.

This past summer, I had the pleasure of taking part in a New Yorker event with Jennifer Egan, and Karen Russell, and moderated by fiction editor Deborah Treisman. The video is now on the internets. We're at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater in New York, if you're wondering.

Suday, July 17, 2011, 8:05 p.m.
Le Carmen, Paris, France

"In a post-Bastille Day lit celebration for the millennium (at Le Carmen), Literary Death Match is teaming with Shakespeare & Co. to deliver one of the surefire greatest LDMs in our five-year history!The lineup is awash with stellar stars, including a judging trio that boasts all-world scribe Nathan Englander (author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and The Ministry of Special Cases), spectacular comedian Sebastian Marx (host of Pranzo's New York Comedy Night), and Minnie Moskowitz's keyboardist extraordinaire Tara Mulholland!They'll pass judgment on a genius foursome of readers, including Rachel Zucker (author of Home/Birth: a poemic — co-written with Arielle Greenberg), poetic mastermind Matthew Rohrer (Destroyer and Preserver), The Paris Literary Prize-winner Rosa Rankin-Gee (author of the novella The Last Kings of Sark), and Paris-born scribe Mabrouck Rachedi (author of Le Poids d'une âme and Le Petit Malik). Hosted by LDM creator Todd Zuniga. Produced by Jemma Birrell, Harriet Alida Lye & Pauline Perrignon." From Literary Death Match

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
NYU Campus, Paris, France

I'll be reading with Chris Adrian, author of The Great Night, and Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project.