The title of Nathan Englander’s powerful new collection of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, comes from a Raymond Carver story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” but Englander’s change in the noun at the end of the title changes the tenor of the whole phrase. Everyone talks about love, but who talks about Anne Frank? Well, Englander, (...)
August 17, 2012
Books
High Shtick
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne FrankNathan EnglanderKnopf, $24.95, 207 pp.
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