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kamanja, Keret wrote exactly the essay he wanted -- and I doubt that this reviewer would disagree. I do think, however, her review gives us a more complete reading of Keret by emphasizing how political his fun story about mustaches really is. I agree with you that we have an obligation to allow authors "to tell a story in the kind of language the kind of characters they have invented would use." I think we also have an obligation to read between the lines of what authors are saying -- and at times this requires us to read against the grain of what they're saying. As an author myself, I can't imagine wanting anything less from my readers.
Thanks for a great article. Keret's essay was outrageous, and I was glad to see a response like this.
"Well, you know, having studied journalism, anyone who goes into the journalism profession, I would hope, is interested in the world around them, and I was particularly interested in what was going on in Palestine because growing up, I had considered Palestinians terrorists. Without really paying attention to what was going on in the Middle East, that’s what I was getting from, basically, osmosis. That’s what was filtering down to me without doing any of my own research into it. And slowly my impression began to change when I did begin to pay attention, which was around the time of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s."
Thanks for a great interview! Joe Sacco is one of the few journalists we still have in the U.S. (And the fact that he doesn't write for a newspaper or work on cable news says a lot about the state of contemporary U.S. journalism.)
Thanks for this moving, politically nuanced essay!