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...Auslander wants to stake a claim to the title of American Jewish literature’s bona fide “bad boy,” his most compelling credential might be that he’s—gasp!—a college drop-out. After leaving school, Auslander rose through the ranks of a New York advertising agency. Somewhere along the way, he appears to have acquired a knack for writing in 30-second sound-bytes...
...Complaint and addresses the universal male predicament of puberty. Heimish is a rather priggish dog who reproaches his masturbating master, the newly-pubescent Shlomo. Heimish likens Shlomo’s sexual self-gratification to the horrors of the Holocaust: Shlomo “mopped the murdered Jewish souls off his hands with a couple of tissues, flushed them down the toilet and hid the Jergens behind the medicine rack,” Auslander writes...
...Auslander’s freshest vignettes is his “Startling Revelations from the Lost Book of Stan,” the saga of an American Jewish traveler who discovers the “Extremely Old Testament” in a dark cave in the Negev Desert...
...narrator of “Holocaust Tips for Kids” exclaims: “Assimilating is when you stop being Jewish, like Woody Allen.” But the former Allen Konigsberg has proven that even a Jewish writer from Brooklyn can draw laughter from a crowd of gentiles. Likewise, Roth has garnered faithful fans far beyond the matzoh-ball belt...
Auslander may indeed be, as one of his peers has declared, “the freshest voice in Jewish literature since Philip Roth arrived on the scene.” But like gefilte fish, and Manischewitz wine, Auslander’s wit might be a delicacy that never finds a following outside the ethnic niche market...