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Conversation with Nathan Englander

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July 11, 2007

NATHAN ENGLANDER

About a month later, on May 21, 2007, I found myself on the stage of the Mark Taper auditorium at the Los Angeles Central Public Library, as part of the ALOUD series, in conversation with Nathan Englander whose new novel, “The Ministry of Special Cases” (Knopf) had recently been published. Englander is also the author of a collection of short stories “For The Relief of Unbearable Urges” published in 1999 to great acclaim.

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