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And Thanks For All The Fish
Tomorrow’s Vox Tablet today
In tomorrow’s podcast, Vox Tablet brings you a conversation among editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse and the authors of two of our favorite summer novels, contributing editors Gary Shteyngart and Joshua Cohen. Though stylistically quite different, Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story and Cohen’s Witz both offer dystopic visions of the future in which the things they love, whether literature and passion (Shteyngart) or rigorous Jewish life and thought (Cohen), are on the verge of extinction. Their wide-ranging discussion, conducted over drinks and smoked fish at a down-on-its-heels Brighton Beach establishment on a sweltering summer day, covers such topics as the pending collapse of the U.S. empire, rhinoplasty, crucifixion, and, here, Shteyngart’s declaration that if we all get is some delicious fish to eat and a few other material pleasures, well, that would be enough:
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
