Donna Seaman is an editor for Booklist and host of the radio program Open Books in Chicago (www.openbooksradio.org). Her author interviews are collected in "Writers on the Air." Expelled from high ...
“Parental love is the sacrifice made in silence,” says Jorgen Hofmeester, the protagonist of “Tirza,” Arnon Grunberg’s latest translated novel. In “Tirza,” the quiet martyrdom of parenthood rubs up ...
Mockingly irreverent and verging on the fantastical, Grunberg's satirical comedy featuring a contemporary messiah will amuse some readers and offend others. When Swiss teenager Xavier Radek meets ...
Arnon Grunberg was born in Amsterdam and published his first novel at the age of 23. His most recent novel, "The Jewish Messiah," was recently published by Penguin Press. His work (novels, plays, ...
Dutch literary wunderkind Arnon Grunberg’s bio reads like a gonzo Horatio Alger story: dropped out of school at 17, wrote a prize winning novel by age 23, followed that with a couple more ...
After listening to Fresh Air’s interview with Deborah Feldman this week (aired March 15, 2021), the author of the acclaimed memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon & ...
Peter Werkhoven, chief scientific officer at TNO, talks to Arnon Grunberg (who is based in New York). Grunberg made his breakthrough in 1994 with his novel, Blue Mondays. He has since become one of ...
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Unsettling, profane and goofy, Arnon Grunberg’s novel takes politically incorrect risks with contemporary Jewish culture. In this interview, he reveals that as a child of Holocaust survivors, he has ...
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