Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB
TALK: The Ministry of Special Cases
Nathan Englander
Monday, April 14 / 8:00 PM
Victoria Hall, 33 W. Victoria Street
From Nathan Englander, author of the literary sensation For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a spectacular debut novel set at the height of Argentina’s Dirty War, The Ministry of Special Cases is, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, “A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory . . . . It’s a family drama layered with agonized and often comical filial connections that are stretched to the snapping point by terrible circumstance . . . Builds with breathtaking, perfectly wrought pacing and calm, terrifying logic.” Englander’s short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and numerous anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Anthology, and The Pushcart Prize. His story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Knopf, 1999), earned him a PEN/Malamud Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kauffman Prize.
Sponsored by The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Department of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai B’rith, and Santa Barbara Hillel.
