Etgar Keret’s lithe, colloquial writing style and darkly inventive themes brought renewed popularity to the short story form in 1990s Israel. The author of seven story collections, a children’s book, and several comic books, he is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Keret and his wife Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or for their 2007 film Jellyfish, and his novella Kneller’s Happy Campers was adapted into the cult American movie Wristcutters: A Love Story. He has written extensively for Israeli television, the NPR program This American Life, and for periodicals such as The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and the Paris Review. With dark humor, absurdity, and poignant insight, Keret’s new memoir chronicles the seven years between his son’s birth and his father’s death.

In conversation with Andy Kahan, director, Author Events