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Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), and for his non-fiction work Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather (2019). His most recent novel, Here I Am, was published in 2016. He teaches creative writing at New York University.
Foer is he winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. He was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest."
Foer used to be married to author Nicole Krauss but they legally separated in 2014 in what is believed to be an amicable split. He lives in Brooklyn.
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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 had more ...
Paul Benjamin Auster was born on February 3, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Samuel Auster, was a landlord; his mother, Queenie was about 13 years younger than her husband; the marriage was not a happy one. ... (more)
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