benjamin
My blogs
- The Nine Measures
- By Benjamin Kerstein
- JOSEF6
- the deconstructionis...
- gefen
- התבנית
- diary of an anti-chomskyite
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | writer, student |
| Location | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Introduction | Benjamin Kerstein is an Israeli-American writer, editor, and novelist.
Michael J. Totten, the prize-winning author of The Road to Fatima Gate, has called him "one of the finest American-Israeli authors of his generation." Jay Nordlinger of the National Review has referred to his work as "some of the most intelligent, clearest, most honest writing I have read in a long time." He lives in Tel Aviv. |
| Interests | cinema, politics, philosophy, judaism, women, life, death, infinity, occasional bouts of manic depression, Albert Camus, transgressive literature |
| Favorite Movies | The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, Once Upon a Time in the West, F for Fake, 8 1/2, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, The Searchers, Days of Heaven, Stolen Kisses, The Thin Red Line, Kedma, Without Limits, Barry Lyndon, All That Jazz, Blade Runner, Crash, Superman: The Movie |
| Favorite Music | Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Beethoven, Jeff Buckley, Muddy Waters, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Mike Bloomfield, Peter Green, Aviv Gefen, David Broza, Edith Piaf, Smashing Pumpkins |
| Favorite Books | The Stranger, The Rebel, The Great Gatsby, Death on the Installment Plan, H.P. Lovecraft:Against the World Against Life, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lunar Park, The Elementary Particles, Whatever, The Trial, Lolita, Illuminations, Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges: Complete Non-Fictions, Writing Degree Zero, Writing and Difference, The Poetics of Aristotle, American Psycho, Lunar Park, Crash |