Etgar Keret Reads “Fly Already”

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | May 9, 2017

Etgar Keret reads his story from the May 15, 2017, issue of the magazine. (“Fly Already" was translated, from the Hebrew, by Sondra Silverston.) Keret is the author of the memoir “The Seven Good Years,” which was published in 2015.  His story collection “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door,” came out in 2012.

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