“The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to me to think, to get to experience my own story crossing those boundaries. To have that experience that I so cherished as a reader. I can't believe this. To me, it's really nice because that would be a thing where I'm like, "There may be lots of Jews in my work. I'm not writing stories for Jews. I'm telling stories about people, and Jews are people, too."” PeopleThinkingWritingBelieveMovingLanguageExistenceNiceJewBoundariesReally NiceForeign Language Author:Nathan Englander
“To me, when one is writing sometimes about a very specific subject with very specific people, I feel like if that story doesn't cross over, it's not working. That's very beautiful to me, to be sitting in Berlin and there's an actor reading my book in German. I don't even know what's going on, except I know to feel my own rhythms in another language and say, "If this is going well, I think everyone should laugh around now." Then maybe there's laughter, and for me, it reminds me of how story can move around the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingBookSometimesBeautifulMovingReadingLanguageLaughingLaughterRhythmOver ItVery Beautiful Author:Nathan Englander
