Fanatic Cook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jonathan Foer's book is hard to read. Here's a story. It begins a chapter where he discusses the acts involved in transforming a living animal into a processed animal. "Paradise Locker Meats used to be located somewhat closer to Smithville Lake, in northwestern Missouri. The original plant burned down in 2002 when a fire broke out as a result of a ham smoking gone awry. In the new facility is...
Moderato (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zadie SmithWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don’t know where to put them. It’s a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Drabble, Chinua Achebe and Michael Chabon, among others, have published essays, and so this [...]
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Eating Animals is a sensitive and brave book and as such will always be met by certain criticisms reserved for things which are sensitive and brave.
Tape Noise Diary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Flesh of Your Flesh New Yorker profiles Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals. Foer was just nine years old when the problem of being an “eating animal” first presented itself. One evening, his parents left him and his older brother with a babysitter and a platter of chicken. The babysitter declined to join the boys for dinner. “You know [...]
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Administration Asked to Detail Cost to Jobs, Economy under EPA Decisions WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., today asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to explain how four rules, including the greenhouse gas endangerment finding, would affect job losses in the United States. Drop That Burger - Forbes.com The green cognoscenti are choosing...
VittlesVamp (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
So, for my 1000th post on VittlesVamp, I point you to my review of Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals" on TheBookStudio.com. Needless to say, I'm still a meat-eater.
Fluttering Butterflies (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
...Another trip to the library! Sorry about the terrible photos. Bad lighting, bad angles. Oh well. Some interesting looking books though... First up we have The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver which I snatched up from the New Releases shelf. I try to be dignified about it all, but failed pretty miserably. I got looks. Then we have Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer , which was...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Thanks to Tony O’Neill for the tip off: christwire.org calls Jonathan Safran Foer “A Jewish Star Christians Really Can Follow!”. Some direct quotes from the article: John Updike crowned Foer the genius voice of his generation, but sadly, the rest of that generation was off growing goatees and clicking around MySpace. His soaring words put cruel and negative [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The author, who recently released his first nonfiction book, "Eating Animals," will read tonight. Wine and cheese will follow. For more information, call 718-638-8300. ...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In one corner, Sarah Palin, the “bone-licker, shit-kicker, caribou-killer,”; In the other, the gentle friend of animals, Jonathan Safran Foer. According to Macy Halford at the NYer blog, this fight’d be no contest.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Photo by torre.elena Tomorrow evening at the Harold Washington Library , author Jonathan Safran Foer will speak about and sign copies his new book, Eating Animals . In his first foray into the nonfiction world, Foer focuses on his own struggles with eating meat, his research on factory farms, as well as the cultural and familial traditions and myths that keep Americans eating meat. Eating Animals...
Two-Headed Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
As a disclaimer, what I’ve written below about my food choices is a personal decision. Part of me feels uncomfortable for even sharing this. I fear that it will seem judgmental or preachy. I don’t intend that. My only reason for sharing this is that eating is such a social activity. It is something that [...]
Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
If you've gone to a lot of our events lately, you'll notice that I'm no longer doing every single one of them. Needless to say, I have mixed feelings about that. But my bookseller Stacie simply does a great job, and why not take advantage of that? So last week I put the AV Club's Inventory event in her hands, and now I'm regretting that I missed it. Not that I had much choice; the email newsletter...
jumbo shrimp (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
"Nothing—not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug—establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together. Maybe it’s cultural. Maybe it’s an echo from the communal feasts of our ancestors..." -Excerpt from Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (I have about 10 books ahead of this one in line, but I really look forward to reading it) Tonight we dined at Sue...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Jonathan Safran Foer's new book Eating Animals is a thorough, nuanced analysis of the ethical and environmental quandaries posed by America's appetite for animal products....
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