LARB Radio Hour: An Israeli and Palestinian "Dinner at the Center of the Earth" with Nathan Englander; Plus Rachel Cusk's "Outline"
Author Nathan Englander joins LARB to discuss his ambitious new novel "Dinner at the Center of the Earth," which is set inside the Israel-Palestine conflagration.
By LARB Radio HourNovember 3, 2017
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Author Nathan Englander joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to discuss his ambitious new novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth, which is set inside the Israel-Palestine conflagration. In an energetic conversation, teeming with wit, Nathan also shares the despair he felt while living in Israel in 2000 at the collapse of the peace talks and beginning of the second intifada, and explains why he mixed the surreal and all-too-real in a work that strives to do nothing less than bring the two sides together to recognize their shared humanity, need for cooperation, and desire for peace. Also, Medaya recommends Rachel Cusk’s divinely drafted novel Outline.
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