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Hello, I'm Unite Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

It's a special edition of Unholy because we're at that special time of the year

between the New Year and Yon Kippur, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

And so I think we can call it a tradition.

It's already, we've been up and running

long enough, that we always thought at this time, it's nice to have something a little bit slower,

a little bit more reflective to fit the kind of vibe of this period of the year. And so our guest

is someone who really does fit that and speak to that mood really, really well.

I couldn't agree more, Jonathan. We are thrilled to speak to Nicole Krause on Unholy today.

Nicole Krause is one of America's leading novelist. She's the author of five critically acclaimed

books. Man walks into her room, her first novel, which she wrote at the age of 25, the history of love,

one of my favorite novels, followed by Great House and Forest Dark, and a recent book

is a collection of short stories titled To Be a Man. Her books have been translated into 37

languages, and she recently returned from a long summer vacation in Tel Aviv, Italy,

and Beirut. We might talk about that a little later in our conversation. Nicole, it's such a

unique pleasure to talk to you today. Thank you. You know, I want to kind of begin, Nicole,

if I may, we're asking you about this collection of short stories. New York Times wrote about it

this quote, Krause's stories capture characters at moments in their lives when they're hungry

for experience and open to possibility. And that openness extends to the stories themselves.

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