In Israel, Literary Authors Report the News

Seth Fischer bio ↓  ·  June 14th, 2009  ·  filed under books

Last Wednesday, in honor of Hebrew Book Week, the Israeli daily Haaretz sent its journalists home one day and brought in a bunch of literary authors to report the news. Apparently, it worked brilliantly. The weather report was a poem about summer. The stock summary read, “Everything’s okay. The economists went to their homes, the laundry is drying on the lines, dinners are waiting in place.” An author living with cancer visited a cancer ward, “A woman walking with a cane brings her partner a cup of coffee with a trembling hand. The looks they exchange are sexier than any performance by Madonna and cost a good deal less.” 

The only problem was voiced by one of the journalists, “For them … there is a tendency to elaborate.” 

Dave Eggers would approve.

Related Posts

···
Seth Fischer's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, Pank, Guernica, Monkeybicycle, Gertrude, and elsewhere. He's working on a novel about a girl who accidentally raises an army and destroys the world, and he's founding editor of The Splinter Generation. He also teaches and tutors and administrates and does copyediting and copywriting so that he can pay bills, but that only works sometimes. If you could help him make that work all the time, he would probably give you a hug, but only if you wanted one. Reach him at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com or @sethfischer. More from this author →

Leave a Reply

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.

The Rumpus Blog

newest posts from The Rumpus