When Beckett Met Kafka...

Shalom Auslander, author of the darkly funny Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir and Hope: A Tragedy, turns his satiric gaze to contemporary identity politics, family relationships and cannibalism in his latest novel. The outrageous premise of Mother for Dinner serves as a clever device to interrogate these themes in sharp, entertaining and often grotesque ways. Auslander joins us to talk about tribalism, mother issues and the crippling weight of history.

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Shalom Auslander describes himself as having "been raised like a veal". He is the author of the short story collection Beware of God, the memoir Foreskin’s Lament and the novels Hope: A Tragedy and Mother For Dinner. He is the creator of Showtime’s Happyish.

Sean French is one half of writing duo Nicci French. Outside this writing partnership, he has written other novels, biographies of Patrick Hamilton and Brigitte Bardot, and a study for the British Film Institute on James Cameron’s The Terminator.

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