We’re trying something new here at the pod shop – a kind of palate cleanser to follow our latest full episode. What gives? Well, we keep hearing from our listeners that they’d like to sample one or more of the books under discussion in each of our every-other-weekly conversations with writers and creatives who write and create in collaboration, so we thought we’d offer a brief reading in this space between episodes. Here, in this inaugural installment of a segment we’re calling “Between the Lines,” we’re pulling a book from the shelf and sharing a short passage that hopefully illuminates our most recent pod chat. Our latest guest, Doron Keren, is the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors. He’s just out with a new English-language translation of a memoir written by his grandfather, Ignacy Chiger—which, as it happens, covers a lot of the same ground in the best-selling memoir As Told To host Daniel Paisner wrote with Doron’s mother, Krystyna Chiger, in 2008. Listen, and consider not only what it’s like to grow up beneath the shadow of the Holocaust, but also what it means to reassemble the stories of your life in a way that honors the different points of view of those sharing these stories, and to find truth and meaning in those differences. Links:
