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Etgar Keret
I first discovered Keret when I was in Jerusalem many years ago, exploring an independent bookstore. I asked an employee for help finding good translations of Israeli authors and she gave me a novel by Meir Shalev, and one by David Grossman (which I loved), and then asked, “Do you like weird things?” Which, yes. And so that’s how I was introduced to The Nimrod Flipout, and was immediately won over by Keret’s dark, twisted humor and the way he so beautifully captures the absurdities of life in such spare prose. Read “Glittery Eyes.” And then read everything else you can get your hands on. Including this great holiday story he wrote for Electric Literature a few years ago! It’s pretty fucking funny.