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Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestseller Everything Is Illuminated
(2002),
named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous
awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award,
and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. Foer was one of Rolling
Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest." Foreign rights
to his new novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) have already been sold in ten countries. The film of
Everything
Is Illuminated, directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood, was
released in 2005. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been optioned for film by Scott Rudin Productions in conjunction with Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures.
Foer used to be married to author Nicole Krauss but they legally separated in 2014 in what is believed to be an amicable split.
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In three separate interviews Jonathan Safran Foer discusses Eating Animals, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, talks with Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic
Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals, is an eloquent
exploration of something most sentient humans think about at some
point in their lives: Just what exactly am I eating? Or more to the
point, Just who exactly am I eating? Foer has written an excellent,
serious, and earnest book, and I spoke to him about his conclusions
recently. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.
It seems, from reading Eating Animals, that you want people to adopt
vegetarianism, but you don't actually say, "I've presented you with evidence
that makes it morally impossible for you to eat meat." Why don't you
go all the way?
I don't know that I would put it quite like you just did. I was really
moved, I have to say, by some of the small farms that I went to. I
would say that the goodness of good farmers might have surprised
me more than the badness of bad farmers. Maybe that's just because
I ...
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