FEH

‘Hurrah for one of our most merciless humorists. Auslander’s prose isn’t just laudable, it’s frightening’ * David Sedaris *‘I howled with laughter’ * Sunday Times *‘Shalom Auslander is a truth teller whose punim you want to pinch…Feh is a dark, daffy chronicle of failure and disappointment…Feh inverts the old tagline ‘never let them see you sweat’; it is all sweat on display, salty and messy, the exposed shirt stains of someone determined to be a bronze medalist even at the insecurity Olympics’ * New York Times *‘Auslander is one of America’s sharpest comic provocateurs’ * Jewish Chronicle *‘Auslander blends both a sense of despair and a self-deprecating whimsy in his latest …Part personal history, part self-examination, and part social commentary, his book addresses everything from Kafka to capitalism…A page-turning memoir that shouldn’t be missed… It could motivate readers to keep trudging onward, even when life seems overwhelming’ * Library Journal *‘Outrageously funny…With humor and heart-wrenching detail, Auslander confronts his deep-seated self-loathing and warns of how received stories can do psychological damage…The memoir is as iconoclastically funny as Auslander’s fiction, but it’s also reassuring’ * Shelf Awareness *‘A poignant…study of the religious guilt….The result is an often-brutal, sometimes-rewarding journey out of the darkness’ * LitHub *‘Auslander’s brilliantly funny, and brilliantly offensive, novel Mother for Dinner is one of my favourite novels of the last few years… Feh is equally as wonderful… this is laugh-out-loud stuff from the first pages’ * The Critic *

Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Tablet magazine, The New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR’s This American Life. Auslander 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. He lives in Los Angeles.