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REVIEW: ‘Autocorrect’

JL;DR SUMMARY Etgar Keret's new collection, "Autocorrect," offers a series of surreal and speculative short stories that explore themes of human loneliness and the bizarre. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli LiteratureEtgar KeretLonelinessMinimalismKafkaesqueSpeculative FictionYiddish StorytellingAutocorrectFlash FictionSecular Israeli Culture

Places mentioned

Israel
"In the 33 stories of his new collection, Autocorrect, Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret conjures Kafkaesque frontiers of human loneliness and myriad scenarios for the end of the world as we know it."
Australia
"The day after a scientists girlfriend leaves New York for Australia, he falls madly in love with her doppelganger, newly arrived from an alternate universe to compete on an interdimensional game show;"
New York, United States
"The day after a scientists girlfriend leaves New York for Australia, he falls madly in love with her doppelganger, newly arrived from an alternate universe to compete on an interdimensional game show;"
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"In Mitzvah, he paints a portrait of modern Tel Aviv, where an unnamed teenage narrator is high on the drug Ecstasy and headed to the beach hoping to pick up a female tourist."
Pennsylvania, United States
"Bryan Schwartzman is a writer living outside Philadelphia."

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