benjamin
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| 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 |