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Etgar Keret speaks with Ira Glass
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In S.F., Israeli writer Etgar Keret unfolds stories about ‘my dead mom’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 4, 2025November 4, 2025

On a bus ride out of Tel Aviv one summer, Israeli writer Etgar Keret told American podcaster Ira Glass a story about his late mother. It was so moving that […]

Detail of an illustration from "The Awful Omen," A. J. Sass's contribution to the "On All Other Nights" anthology. (Illustration/Shannon Hochman)
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Oakland writer A. J. Sass uses the afikomen hunt to explore a nonbinary child’s hopes and anxieties

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 17, 2024May 2, 2024
Omer Friedlander is the author of the short story collection "The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land." (Photo/Yam Traiber)
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Debut short-story collection by young Israeli writer is One Bay One Book choice 

by Sue Fishkoff August 25, 2022November 7, 2022
Mikołaj Grynberg is the author of the short story collection "I'd Like to Say I'm Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry to." (Photo/Wikimedia-Jacek Proszyk)
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Haunting story collection provides portrait of Jewish life in postwar Poland

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 9, 2022July 12, 2023
From the cover of “Jerusalem Beach: Stories” by Iddo Gefen
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New short story collections: Imaginative fairy tales and affecting Israeli tales

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 20, 2021
a picture of an older white woman next to cover art "Unexpected Encounters," which features abstract geometric shapes
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Tales of lockdown give immediacy to Palo Alto retiree’s short story collection

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 21, 2020August 22, 2020
simple line art of a fish carrying a ladder and smoking a cigarette
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No time for summer reading? Short stories are your friend.

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 20, 2019
Detail from the cover of "Bombay Brides," a short story collection by Esther David
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New short story collections are dispatches from outposts of Jewish life

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 22, 2019July 25, 2019
the title superimposed over a blue-tinted image of a road stretching into the distance at night
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S.F. author’s short, short stories are long on emotion

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 27, 2018January 9, 2019

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