Thew New Jewish Radio: Shalom Auslander & Jonathan Goldstein April 4, 2006

Shalom Auslander & Bernard Cooper
"The New Jewish Radio"

Some of the freshest voices in Jewish literature are now to be found not in the pages of a book (or not only there), but on the radio, thanks to Ira Glass' This American Life. In "The Blessing Bee," Shalom Auslander tells how, as a yeshiva student, he memorized the proper blessings for various foods to please his mother, while accumulating sins to spite his father. He is the author of the short-story collection Beware of God. Jonathan Goldstein is a contributor to This American Life. He is the author of Lenny Bruce is Dead and co-author of Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley's Jewish Roots.
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