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Etgar Keret

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Around the World With Etgar: Northern Exposure

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By Etgar Keret
| Alphabet Soup Newsletter
screenshot from Alphabet Soup stats I’ve always had a problem with world conquerors of all shapes and sizes. Whether it’s Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan or Hitler, it doesn’t matter how non-judgmental I try to be, I always end up feeling just a tad disgruntled. My negativity doesn’t only come from a controversial standpoint – that you shouldn’t go around invading other people’s lands – but also from my astonishment at the very fact that someone would want to conquer a world.
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Your Story

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By Etgar Keret
| Alphabet Soup Newsletter
I’m writing this story exclusively for you. If you didn’t exist I’d probably be taking a nap or smoking a cigarette on the balcony right now. I don’t need this story anymore. Or any story. After forty years of writing, I’m made of nothing but stories: I breathe them, I spit them, I shit them. The last thing I need is yet another story to get stuck to the bottom of my shoe. Stories—I have plenty. And it’s not that I have plenty of everything. I’d be happy to pick up some more health, money and justice.
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Human Writes: Barista’s Choice

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By Etgar Keret
| Alphabet Soup Newsletter
The street I live on is short and narrow. When I walk out of the old apartment building where I’ve lived for the past thirty-three years, I can go either north or south. On such a tiny street, this is a pretty inconsequential choice—thirty yards this way or the other. Still, the logical thing would be for my destination to dictate which way to turn: if the destination is north of my apartment, I should turn left; if it’s to the south, then right.
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