Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis: ETGAR KERET on Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - Highlights

<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.etgarkeret.com"><strong>“</strong></a>I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice that we make, because this story will affect all the other choices.”</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.etgarkeret.com"><strong>Etgar Keret</strong></a> is one of the most inventive and celebrated short story writers of his generation, a voice that captures the absurdities and profound loneliness of modern life with a deceptive, almost casual wit. His work, translated into dozens of languages, uses fantastical premises—from alien visitations to parallel universes—to illuminate the most human of truths. His new collection, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742605/autocorrect-by-etgar-keret-translated-by-je...