A Funny Book About Genocide

Michael Berger bio ↓  ·  January 7th, 2010  ·  filed under books

“I’d been thinking about writing a book on genocide for some time, but the project really kicked off about a year-and-a-half ago, around the time my wife told me she was pregnant with our second child.

Naturally, I thought about the Holocaust. It wasn’t a morbid thought, or at least it didn’t seem so to me.

The thought was this: “At least our first son will have someone to go to the concentration camps with.”

At Tablet, Shalom Auslander, discusses his latest project: a self-described “comic novel about genocide.” (!)

He will be making a case for himself through ongoing installments at Tablet. Installments that will certainly be as provocative and unsettling and perhaps even hilarious as the very project he intends to complete.

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Michael Berger is a San Francisco-based writer, blogger and fiction editor for www.splintergeneration.com. A former civil rights law clerk, he now works at a bookstore, volunteers at Alemany Farm and is working on various unfinished novels about love and the apocalypse. More from this author →

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