Apr 14, 2026
We’re trying something new here at the pod shop – a kind of
palate cleanser to follow our latest full episode.
What gives? Well, we keep hearing from our listeners that
they’d like to sample one or more of the books under discussion in
each of our every-other-weekly conversations with writers and
creatives who write and create in collaboration, so we thought we’d
offer a brief reading in this space between episodes.
Here, in this inaugural installment of a segment we’re calling
“Between the Lines,” we’re pulling a book from the shelf and
sharing a short passage that hopefully illuminates our most recent
pod chat.
Our latest guest, Doron Keren, is the son and
grandson of Holocaust survivors. He’s just out with a new
English-language translation of a memoir written by his
grandfather, Ignacy Chiger—which, as it happens, covers a lot of
the same ground in the best-selling memoir As Told To host
Daniel Paisner wrote with Doron’s mother, Krystyna Chiger, in
2008.
Listen, and consider not only what it’s like to grow up
beneath the shadow of the Holocaust, but also what it means to
reassemble the stories of your life in a way that honors the
different points of view of those sharing these stories, and to
find truth and meaning in those differences.
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