# Bernard Malamud

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Jewish Novels #6: The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud

All Else is Commentary is a podcast of Jewish ideas. This week, we return to our Jewish Novels series, and Elliott reads The Assistant by Bernard Malamud. Next week: Elliott speaks to the contemporary author, Tamar Hodes, about her new novel, Mixed. As always, if you have any comments or questions…

Story of Writing April 26, 2026

Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty for French emigres who fled the 1789 Revolution and the birthday club includes Ma Rainey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Bernard Malamud - with a reading from Malamud's novel "The Fixer."

The Natural with Charles Star

I finally broke my standing rule of “No Fiction” in this episode to read Bernard Malamud’s debut novel The Natural. If you’ve seen the 1984 film adaptation starring Robert Redford but, like me, had never read the novel, you will be shocked at how radically different the story in the 1952 novel is f…

Scandal, Part Deux!

To my subscribers: I’ve been working on a few essays. One of them is, in fact, already out at The Republic of Letters. Go have a read. Otherwise, I’m soon to be pitching some book reviews and pieces elsewhere. By the way, The Insufferable B******s is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Y…

Dugout Theologians

In his baseball novel “The Natural,” Bernard Malamud wrote: “We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.” Whether you agree with this sentiment or not, there’s no doubt that baseball fans tend to be philosophical…

Shot by a Stalker, He Came Back to Win the Pennant | The Real Roy Hobbs

Everyone knows The Natural. Robert Redford, Roy Hobbs, Wonder Boy, the home run into the lights. Pure Hollywood fiction, right? Not quite. In June 1949, All-Star first baseman Eddie Waitkus was lured to a room in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel and shot by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, an obsessed fan …

Magic Barrel Audiobook by Bernard Malamud

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Magic BarrelGenres: Audio Theatre, DramaAuthor: Bernard MalamudNarrator: David Cromer, Jensen Wheeler, Malcolm Rothman, Marge Kotlisky, Naama Potok, Shelley BermanRelease date: 01-03-2020Length: 0:27:28Language: E…

Episode 59: Jim Phelan & Howard Sklar — Bernard Malamud’s “Idiots First”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Howard Sklar discuss Bernard Malamud’s “Idiots First,” which was published in Malamud’s 1963 collection with the same title. Howard Sklar is a senior university lecturer in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, wh…