Sunday's New York Times Magazine featured this excellent feature on Jonathan Safran Foer. I loved his Everything is Illuminated, and am eagerly awaiting Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. From this article it sounds like it should be a fascinating work of art.
Beyond that though, the feature is, in and of itself, a gem. It's sharp, insightful and gives us an interesting glimpse of this "European novelist who happens to be writing in America" with a "penchant for giving money away". And the e-mails from him that the author includes ... those are well worth giving a look.
Posted by armand at February 28, 2005 03:32 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Booksi, too, look forward to the new book, and i also thought the article fun to read, but something about foer is almost _too_ precious. like he's trying too hard. it's off-putting.
Posted by: joshua at March 1, 2005 09:34 AM | PERMALINKTrying too hard can be off-putting. But I find him to be quirky and unexpected enough that ... well, it works for me. But yeah, the word "precious" seems apt.
Posted by: Armand at March 1, 2005 09:46 AM | PERMALINKthanks for the heads-up in any event. i didn't return to my sunday times until 8pm, and if you hadn't flagged the article i might never have gotten to it.
Posted by: joshua at March 1, 2005 09:52 AM | PERMALINK