Shalom Auslander
"This sort of joking is scarce today - cultural homogenization and the current moral panic over giving offense have turned it into something like samizdat — but at least we have Shalom Auslander."
- The Wall Street Journal
"I have been bingeing on Shalom Auslander, one of the most amusing writers on the planet. Think David Sedaris with a crushing obsession with death and God."
- Robbi Millen, Times Literary Editor
"Anyone who has read Auslander before will know that when I say “applies his satirical scalpel”, I mean something more like “tosses a hand-grenade and runs away laughing”.
- Sam Leith, The Guardian
"Auslander is a timely reminder that literature can still be daring, provocative and controversial ."
- Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman
"Portnoy-era Roth couldn't hold a candle to Shalom Auslander ."
- Entertainment Weekly
UNGODLY: Good Lessons From a Bad God - A YouTube Biblical Commentary
What if we've been reading the Bible all wrong? What if God is the antagonist? What lessons might we learn if we read it from that perspective - and what kind of society might we build if we did? Click the angry God to watch.
SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON BEST NOVELS OF 2021
THE ECONOMIST BEST NOVELS OF 2021
This is a work of genius - The Scotsman
The novel I am most looking forward to this year - The Spectator
You're unlikely to read anything funnier this year - The Big Issue
Such exuberant, devil-may-care artistic freedom is hard to achieve in the age of the perpetually offended - The Times of London
A new novel of identity, tribalism... and mothers.
Auslander turns his taboo-shattering satiric gaze to cannibalism in this outrageous, salty take on contemporary culture... a riotous dissection of cultural formation and a community’s hunger for meaning.
- Publisher's Weekly
Auslander uses his signature dark humor to brilliantly satirize tribalism in America… This could be a portrait of any ethnic group that has been consumed by America, though, in this case, it’s unclear who is devouring whom.
- Booklist
All this mugging and clowning and ferocity... is to a purpose: the intolerable weight of history, of its deadening solemnity, and the individual’s rage to throw it off. Auslander’s resolution is of such life-affirming sweetness that –never mind that the word “asshole” appears eight times in a single short paragraph – you could almost call it sentimental.
- The Guardian
Mother for Dinner . . . turns a jaundiced eye toward ethnic identity and the burdens of tradition as they concern a different oppressed minority group... the jokes are dependably good.
- The Wall Street Journal
A grotesque family comedy... written in fast-moving, deadpan prose.
- New Statesman, NS Recommends
Auslander writes like some contemporary comedic Jeremiah, thundering warnings of disaster and retribution. What makes him so terrifyingly funny is that he isn't joking.
- Howard Jacobson, winner of the Man Booker Prize
Blends tragedy, comedy and satire in the mold of Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka.
– Wall Street Journal
A virtuoso humorist, and a brave one.
– NY Times Book Review
My pick for the funniest novel of the past decade.
– Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
A New York Times
Best Book of the Year
A scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir, and an irreverent meditation on family, marriage, and cultural identity... I loved it.
- Tom Perrotta
Even at his most rebellious, Portnoy-era Roth couldn't hold a candle to Shalom Auslander... Beneath the extremely funny shtick is one ferociously angry book.
- Entertainment Weekly
Funny, fierce and subversively heartfelt.... with his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Auslander gives us Foreskin's Lament.
- NY Times Book Review
The debut of the freshest voice in Jewish Literature since Phillip Roth arrived on the scene... youthful, energetic, wholly original.
- AM Homes
...a poet laureate may be in the making...
- LA Times Sunday Book Review
An extraordinary collection, which has an energy, a precision and a deep black humour I haven't seen in a long time... It's like drinking 14 shots of vodka.
- The Guardian
HAPPYISH on Showtime
It bites with every appearance... it’s a show that challenges its viewer every step of the way... it’s a comedy that rejects the attached expectations while still meeting all the requirements... Whether audiences are ready for that is the real question.
- Ben Travers, Indiewire
SHOWTIME'S 'HAPPYISH' CANCELLED.
- Hollywood Reporter
