March 5, 2012

Not gonna lie, I kinda like being able to prefix “Ho12 contributor” to Keret’s name when re-blogging news of new stories… fsgbooks: There’s a new Etgar Keret short story in Guernica: “Tell me a story,” the bearded man sitting on my living-room sofa commands. The situation, I must admit, is anything but pleasant. I’m someone who writes stories, not someone who tells them. And even that isn’t something I do on demand. The last time anyone asked me to tell him a story, it was my son. That was a year ago. I told him something about a fairy and a ferret—I don’t even remember what exactly—and within two minutes he was fast asleep. But here the situation is fundamentally different. Because my son doesn’t have a beard, or a pistol. Because my son asked for the story nicely, and this man is simply trying to rob me of it.

Not gonna lie, I kinda like being able to prefix “Ho12 contributor” to Keret’s name when re-blogging news of new stories…

fsgbooks:

There’s a new Etgar Keret short story in Guernica:

“Tell me a story,” the bearded man sitting on my living-room sofa commands. The situation, I must admit, is anything but pleasant. I’m someone who writes stories, not someone who tells them. And even that isn’t something I do on demand. The last time anyone asked me to tell him a story, it was my son. That was a year ago. I told him something about a fairy and a ferret—I don’t even remember what exactly—and within two minutes he was fast asleep. But here the situation is fundamentally different. Because my son doesn’t have a beard, or a pistol. Because my son asked for the story nicely, and this man is simply trying to rob me of it.

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repeat from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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