Novelist Asks Ira Glass If He’d Hide His Family in the Attic
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
“If there’s another Holocaust, can I hide in your attic?”
Novelist Shalom Auslander puts this question to the host of This American Life and a couple of other TAL alumni — Sarah Vowell and John Hodgman — as part of his promotional effort for his new book, Hope: A Tragedy. Playing on the theme of the “collective Holocaust guilt” of Jews that runs throughout his novel, he crafts some pretty brilliant (and entertaining) video trailers touching on some rather delicate religious ground.
