Episode 46: Jim Phelan & Gary Weissman — Shalom Auslander’s “Smite the Heathens, Charlie Brown”

Project Narrative

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Gary Weissman discuss Shalom Auslander’s short story, “Smite the Heathens, Charlie Brown,” originally included in the 2005 collection Beware of God. Gary Weissman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and in the School of Communication Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Weissman also is an Affiliate Faculty member in the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Judaic Studies. He is the author of Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust, and The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature. Weissman has also written many essays on how the Holocaust has been represented in literature, scholarship, photography, and film, and in addition to being a scholar and teacher of graphic and animated narratives, Weissman is himself a skillful cartoonist.