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Aaron Hamburger

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Aaron Hamburger is the author of the novel Nirvana Is Here, a story collection titled The View From Stalin's Head, which was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and nominated for a Violet Quill Award, and a novel titled Faith For Beginners, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His latest novel is Hotel Cuba. In 2023, he was awarded the Jim Duggins PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize by Lambda Literary.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, Subtropics, Crazyhorse, Boulevard, Poets and Writers, Tablet, Out, Nerve, Time Out, Details, and The Forward. In addition, he has also won fellowships from Yad
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Aaron Hamburger Thanks for that question! I was inspired by the true-life story of my grandmother who with her sister was running away from war and anti-Semitic viole…moreThanks for that question! I was inspired by the true-life story of my grandmother who with her sister was running away from war and anti-Semitic violence in Russia after World War I, trying to get to America, but ended up in Havana, Cuba instead. What could that have been like, to go from a war-ravaged rural isolated wintry shtetl to sun-drenched Havana, where everything--the weather, the language, the food, the music, the customs--was so different! There were many Jewish immigrants like my grandmother who made this trek and they thought of Havana as a mere way station, a "hotel" as they called it, but I had to believe this experience must have left its mark on my grandmother's life and character, and I was excited to explore what that could have been. Doing the research for this was fascinating and the writing of it sheer joy. Wait until you read the book! (less)
Aaron Hamburger Thanks for that question. For me, first and foremost is always E. M. Forster. I always aspire to hi deep humanitarianism and elegant sentence-crafting…moreThanks for that question. For me, first and foremost is always E. M. Forster. I always aspire to hi deep humanitarianism and elegant sentence-crafting. I also love Bernard Malamud's stories and his novel The Assistant, which was particularly enlightening in terms of how he brought the rhythms of Yiddish to English. Maybe this next one seems like a curveball, but Jane Austen! Sense and Sensibility, with its story of two sisters, one practical and the other romantic, was a kind of analog for this story. Oh, and of course, the marriage plot!(less)
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Hotel Cuba

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Nirvana Is Here

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Aaron writes about his relationship to faith in his essay “Mount Sinai and Me” in the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible.
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