(con)TEXT 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street (at Presidio)
Click here to see the Keynote on the (con)TEXT page
Nathan Englander in conversation with Professor Naomi Seidman
Nathan Englander will be the keynote speaker for (con)TEXT 2009. Englander is the author of two best-selling books, For Relief of Unbearable Urges, a book of stories, and The Ministry of Special Cases, his first novel. Nathan will speak on the influence of the Bible on his work. Englander, raised by Jewish Orthodox parents and educated in a modern Orthodox yeshiva, will discuss the roots and consequences of the religious subtext of his work with Professor Naomi Seidman, who was also raised Orthodox.
Nathan Englander was born in New York in 1970. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Story, American Short Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly and he was included in the "20 Writers for the 21st Century" issue of The New Yorker (June ‘99). Englander was selected by the Voice Literary Supplement as a "Writer on the Verge" and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.
Englander’s story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges was published by Knopf in April ‘99 and his first novel The Ministry of Special Cases was published by Knopf in May 2007 – both were international bestsellers.