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An Evening with Shalom Auslander
Join with on us on Thursday, September 11th at 7:30pm for a lively conversation between Rabbi Katz and author Shalom Auslander about his relentlessly funny, subversively heartfelt, and fearlessly provocative memoir Feh.
This Jewish Book Award finalist follows Auslander’s midlife journey to rewrite the biblical story he’d been raised on—a journey that involves Phillip Seymour Hoffman, a Pulitzer-winning poet, Job, Arthur Schopenhauer, GHB, Wolf Blitzer, Yuval Noah Harari, and a pastor named Steve in a now-defunct church in Los Angeles.
Called a “virtuoso humorist, and a brave one” by the New York Times Book Review and “one of America’s sharpest comic provocateurs” by the Jewish Chronicle, Shalom Auslander grew up in a strict Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Monsey, NY. He is an award-winning and bestselling novelist, memoirist, and essayist whose work has been published in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Tablet, and The New Yorker. His stories have aired on NPR’s This American Life and he is the creator of Showtime’s Happyish.