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bobvis (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
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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Other Stories (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
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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Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
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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Histori-blogography (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
INT. SCHOOL -- DAY FOUR TEENAGED MUSLIM BOYS are hanging out, dressed in jeans and t-shirts. An Avril Lavigne songs plays on a portable stereo. One of the young men is digging through a stack of books. YOUNG MAN Nick Hornby? Jonathan Safran Foer? SECOND YOUNG MAN That stuff sucks. The first young man keeps digging through the pile. YOUNG MAN Wait a minute -- this one looks interesting! He holds up...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
Photo: Itamar Moses Name : Itamar Moses Age: 30 Neighborhood: Park Slope Occupation: Playwright, The Four of Us about two writers, one of whom becomes wildly successful and is totally Jonathan Safran Foer and one of whom may be Itamar. It opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Does Batman count? "Gotham" is basically New York,...
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Translating is an Art (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
The novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer tells the story of a young man who goes to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his quest by a blind old man, a randy guide dog and a very, very bad translator. Some of the [...]
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/10/2007
Brooklyn's Poet-in-Chief Photo:Getty Images Readers, Some news! Jonathan Safran Foer will teach a semester of classes to Yale English majors in the Writing Concentration, the Yale Daily News reports. It's a boon for the program, as it's rare to snag a young writer at the top of his game. The concentration has long boasted acclaimed poet J.D. McClatchy, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Marguiles,...
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monkeyfruit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2007
"If you blunder again," Grandfather said while he masticated a sausage, "I will stop the car and you will get out with a foot in the backside. It will be my foot. It will be your backside. Is this a thing you understand?" From Everything is Illuminated , by Jonathan Safran Foer Following a scathing e-mail I sent to all our reporters around two weeks ago regarding the quality of submitted copies (it...
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/09/2007
In the several years since our wedding, my wife, Elizabeth, and I have had the typical disagreements over money, in-laws, and the talent of Jonathan Safran Foer. To resolve these minor spats, we've tried to observe that old spousal chestnut: Never go to sleep angry. However, until recently, we hadn't done much to address the one major cause of disharmony in our marriage—a growing crisis that happened...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 20/09/2007
...and it's Paul Muldoon. Reading the news this morning reminded me of a piece by Jonathan Safran Foer in LA Weekly in 2002, a year before Muldoon won the Pulitzer and the last thing I can remember enjoying in LA Weekly (don't read it much, granted): I SPENT TWO MONTHS LAST SUMMER IN A SMALL, seaside town in Spain, hoping to make an unrealistic amount of headway into my second novel. Because of a...
