Interview with Jewish Writer Maxim Biller

Recommendation: The transcendental workout blog publishes an interview with Jewish-German writer Maxim Biller, about his influences ("When I was twenty, I discovered the books of Malamud, Heller, Bellow, Roth. They taught me to be free to write about my own—the Jewish—people, just as Chekhov, Camus, and Fitzgerald wrote about their people."), his style, his connection to Jewish identity, as a German-Jew.

Biller (b. 1960) iummigrated as a ten year old from the Soviet Union (via Prague) to Munich. He lives now in Berlin and his books deal mostly with contemporary Jewish-German identity.