Episode notes
“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice that we make, because this story will affect all the other choices.”
Etgar Keret is one of the most inventive and celebrated short story writers of his generation, a voice that captures the absurdities and profound loneliness of modern life with a deceptive, almost casual wit. His work, translated into dozens of languages, uses fantastical premises—from alien visitations to parallel u ...
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Etgar Keret, Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Palestine, Jewish, storytelling, writing, author, short stories, film, human connection, AI, technology, creativity, war, identity, Cannes Film Prize, filmmaker, social media, loneliness, narrative, healing, Hokeret