Next week I’m having an event at the Writers’ House.  Oct 9, 2023.  Why is this night different from other events I’ve had?  1.  It’s celebrating a new book – one that I have learned to respect more and more. 2. It’s in a building that I fell in love with when I first came to Israel – a home for writers.  I used to appear there every few months for years, celebrated weddings of friends, and spent every friday afternoon in the cafe.  That was all before it lost its status and its money.  In the past few years it has been rescued by group of writers who are also businessmen and now the building will be torn down and rebuilt.  So I will be saying farewell to a major part of my love of this country – the part that was literary, socialist, corrupt and yet idealistic.  3.  I’m going to be surrounded by good friends –  what can go wrong?  

so 7:30 p.m. kaplan 6, tel aviv