Announcing a new design contest presented by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and BOMB Magazine in honor of Etgar Keret’s forthcoming book of stories, Suddenly, A Knock on the Door. Here’s the info.

The Something Out of Something Design Contest:
http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/11/etgar-keret-design-contest/

You may have seen Jakub Szczesny's Keret House, which made headlines well ahead of its 2012 unveiling as the slimmest house in the world. Appropriate for Etgar Keret: most of his short stories could fit on a cocktail napkin. If these stories moved a Polish architect to create a four-foot-wide house, what else might they inspire?

The gauntlet has been thrown. FSG Originals and BOMB Magazine present the Etgar Keret Something Out of Something Design Contest.

Faber & Faber publisher and editor Mitzi Angel writes: "Etgar Keret's short tales have always resisted classification. Are they fables? Are they forays into the Israeli unconscious? How can they be so funny and so devastatingly sad at the same time? Can you even call Suddenly, A Knock on the Door (Spring 2012) a 'story collection'? We thought it would be fun to see what his vivid, shape-shifting narratives might inspire in other people, especially given that Etgar has always been interested in blurring the boundaries between different artistic media."

Read a few of Keret's stories and enter the design contest here: http://somethingoutofsomething.tumblr.com/