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The Speakeasy (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hutz, Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated is a Drama/Comedy about a young Jewish mans plight for his family history. Illuminated is based on the novel written in 2002 by Jonathan Safran Foer and his journey to Ukraine to find his families connections to the past. Elijah Wood plays the obsessive author who collects anything and everything and travels through Ukraine...
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Pajiba (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
100 Books in One Year: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Cannonball Read / Julie...
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escapegrace (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Does Obama's win signal a more literary future for America? This AP article , which quotes Toni Morrison and Rick Moody among other writers, ponders the possibility of a cultural trickle-down effect. Jonathan Safran Foer, for one, is feeling it: "Until now, my identity as a writer has never overlapped with my identity as an American — in the past eight years, my writing has often felt like an antidote...
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Last Blog On Earth (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
The 14th annual Jewish Book Fair runs from Thursday, Nov. 6 to Thursday, Nov. 13, featuring eight straight days of lectures and events with authors, journalists, and actors ranging from Henry Winkler (better known as “The Fonz” from Happy Days) to Jonathan Safran Foer (author of Everything is Illuminated). What is guaranteed to be the most inflammatory event of the festival is a [...]
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
If you're an aspiring writer, be sure to take a look at Malcolm Gladwell 's case study on literary creativity in this week's New Yorker , in which he considers the career trajectories of Ben Fountain and Jonathan Safran Foer , a compare-and-contrast between young wunderkinds and "late bloomers" who spend years, sometimes even decades, honing their craft before being discovered: "On the road to great...
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
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Radar (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
An interview with acclaimed famous Brooklyn author Jonathan Safran Foer. 1. Q: "So you were a philosophy major at Princeton!" Also: "Self-deconstructing." Also: "Extra-textual." 2. A: "The truth of the matter is I wasn't thinking anything when I wrote.
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bobvis (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
David Foster Wallace hung himself . I was furiously jealous of him in my 20s. He was kind of the Jonathan Safran Foer of the 1990s, but better. Maybe some day there'll be a young female writer who has that kind of cerebral wunderkind success, but it won't be me. For this blog's readers, I recommend "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" . It was in the back of my mind whenever I wrote a Bad Beta post....
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Radar (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
So, once upon a time—in 2005—a very well-regarded literary agent in New York City went missing! He represented the likes of Mrs. Jonathan Safran Foer. His name was William Clegg, and it was an event of much gossip and scandal. By late 2006, he
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Other Stories (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Everything is Illuminated is one of those books which could have so easily had slid into pretention. The narrative swaps from a young Ukranian man, Alex, whose grasp of English is slightly skewed ("My legal name is Alexander Perchov. But...
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Wired (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Scott Brown This article is about the renowned humorologist. For the sports figure, see Scott Brown (Scottish footballer) . Scott Brown Born March 2, 1976 (age 23) Opelika, Alabama (Europe) Pen name Jonathan Safran Foer Occupation Writer, author, writer-author, songstress, avid composter Genres Fiction, nonfiction, fan-fiction, email, checks (no less than $50) Influences Julius Caesar, Raphael (disambiguation:...
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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
T o novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, it was the Explosion. The knife-edge moment that divided his life. He was eight years old, the middle of three boys, growing up in a Jewish household in Washington, D.C. He was not your usual boy. He was flamboyant and sensitive. At 3, he asked his mother for a vest that sparkled; her sister-in-law made one for him. On this day, his mother drove him to Murch Elementary...
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The Mill (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Cybrary The Contemporary Fiction Book Club will discuss Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Thursday, August 28 at 7pm. The Carrboreaders Non-Fiction Club will discuss Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Thursday, August 14 at 7pm. McIntyre’s Readings in August include J.A. Jance, Martin Clark, Barbara Oakley, Charles...
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Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
In The Washington Post Magazine’s Summer Reading Issue, Ha Jin, Julia Glass, Cheryl Strayed and Jonathan Safran Foer recount their most memorable summer. All the pieces are good, but Foer’s My Explosion was the most compelling (though...
