Jonathan Safran Foer

Confessions of a Meat Addict

Steve Heilig | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: New York Times the Ethicist, Veganism, Peter Singer, Michael Pollan, Vegetarianism, Meat, Jonathan Safran Foer, Food News

The New York Times Magazine's "Ethicist" just held an essay contest with the theme, "Is it ethical to eat meat?" The judges were an all-star roster fr...

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What The Failure Of 'The Corrections' Means For HBO

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Hbo Adaptations, Hbo the Corrections, Hbo Literary Adaptations, Video, Ayelet Waldman Hbo, Game of Thrones, Hbo, The Corrections Hbo, Ayelet Waldman, Hbo the Corrections Cancelled, Hbo Novels, Literary Adaptations, Jonathan Safran Foer, The Corrections, Entertainment News

On Tuesday, HBO made two announcements in the realm of acquisitions. The network said it would be producing "True Detective," a crime series based on ...

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Smartphone Addiction: Why I'm Putting the Phone Down

Susan Conley | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: How to Unplug, Unplugging, Smartphones, Smartphone, Unplug and Recharge, Smart Phone, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer, Women News

The sneaky thing that my Smartphones does is make me feel like every hour of every day is the absolutely most perfect time in the world to get my email. Except it's not.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's New American Haggadah: Extremely Similar and Incredibly the Same.

Tom Teicholz | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Haggadah, Pesach, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Passover, Jewish Holidays, Passover Seder, Judaism, New American Haggadah, Seder, Books News

On the face of it, Foer seems a brilliant choice to commission and compile a New American Haggadah.The result is neither new nor particularly American -- it is as if he wrestled with the Haggadah, like Jacob wrestled with the angel, and the Haggadah won, repeatedly.

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Passover Is A Time To Renew Jewish-African American Common Cause

Rabbi Edward Bernstein | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Haggadah, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jeffrey Goldberg, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Seder, Exodus, Jonathan Safran Foer, Feet Were Praying, Passover, Judaism, Interfaith, Religion News

The Israelites may have left Egypt, but in many ways, we still experience Egypt. Humans still treat people who are different as "other." Until that stops, we are all still enslaved to prejudice and its consequences.

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Considering Those Lobsters, and Getting Hungry Like Hemingway

Anna King | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood Bones & Butter, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julia Child, Liars Club, The Glass Castle, Meet the Meat, Blood Bones & Butter Review, Food Memoirs, Food Books, Hp Book Club, Food Writing, Books News

Gabrielle Hamilton's simple descriptions of enjoying salty cheese and a warm salted potato in Amsterdam have the same effect as Hemingway's descriptions of Parisian beer and potato salad: They make you hungry.

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Commentaries For A New American Passover Seder

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Jeffrey Goldberg, Judaism, New American Haggadah, Lemony Snicket, Slidepollajax, Jonathan Safran Foer, Passover, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Religion News

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah -- the user’s manual for the Passover seder -- has been translated more widely, and repr...

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Jonathan Safran Foer On His Newest Project

Jonathan Safran Foer | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: New Haggadah, Haggadah, New American Haggadah, Judaism, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Maxwell House Haggadah, Books News

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah -- the user's manual for the Passover seder -- has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. Everywhere there have been Jews, there have been new Haggadahs.

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Barack Obama Is Such a Traditional Jew Sometimes

Jeffrey Goldberg | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Jews, Haggadah, Jeffrey Goldberg, Passover Haggadah, Barack Obama, Obama Jews, New American Haggadah, Jonathan Safran Foer, Politics News

George W. Bush was, in his own way, a philo-Semite, but he never would have made such a member-of-the-tribe kind of joke as Barack Obama did when I recently handed him a copy of the New American Haggadah.

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WATCH: Colbert's Passover Questions For Jonathan Safran Foer

Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Haggadah, Video, Religious-Books, American Judaism, Exodus Story, Judaism, New American Haggadah, Stephen-Colbert, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Book of Exodus, Passover, Religion News

Translated by Nathan Englander, with commentaries by Lemony Snicket and Jeffrey Goldberg, the New American Haggadah sets itself apart from the 7,000 e...

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Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander On Their New Collaboration

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Haggadah Collaboration, Haggadah, New Haggadah, Englander Foer Collaboration, Foer Englander Collaboration, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

NEW YORK -- Authors Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander, seated together at a Brooklyn diner, would like to continue a discussion that has laste...

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Writers' Valentines to Their Mentors

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Mentors, Joyce Carol Oates, Writers, Michael Cunningham, Inspiration, Fiction, Valentines Day, Cheryl Strayed, Influence, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Several years ago, I unleashed a whole lot of gratitude and love in a group of wonderful writers

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Stiller To Star In, Direct HBO Show On D.C. Jewish Family

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Alan Alda, Video, All Talk, Ben Stiller, Hbo, HBO All Talk, HBO Pilots, Veep, HBO Ben Stiller, Ben Stiller All Talk, Jonathan Safran Foer, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Ben Stiller will star, direct and produce a new HBO series set in the nation's capital. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "All Talk,"...

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"Crazy Crazy": Introducing Guinevere, Plus Chatting With Four Year Strong's Alan Day and Gregory Rogove

Mike Ragogna | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Star Wars, Dan O'Connor, Britney Spears, The Strokes, The Beach Boys, Alanis Morisette, Black Sabbath, Beck, Star Trek, Bon Jovi, Fab Moeretti, Gregory Rogove, Devandra Banhart, Ari Levine, Fleetwood Mac, Erik Satie, Jean-Luc Picard, Garage Band, Turantula a.D., Jake Massucco, The Smeezingtons, John Medeski, Joe Weiss, Stevie Nicks, Fela Kuti, Taio Cruz, Diana Garcia, Paul McCartney, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Instagram, Johnny Cupcakes, The Backstreet Boys, Jonathan Safran Foer, Bruno Mars, Nick Carter, Rihanna, The Doors, The Gun Club, Flo Rida, Knitting Factory, Get Up Kids, Four Year Strong, Dr. Luke, King Arthur, Amir Epstein, Ke$Ha, Britney, Call of Duty, SJC Drums, Patrick Stewart, Video, Megapuss, Cirkut, Priestbird, Gunievere, Alan Day, V for Vendetta, Entertainment News

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Movie review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Tom Hanks, Movie Reviews, Eric Roth, Marshall Fine, Max Von Sydow, 9/11, Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, World Trade Center, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, New York, Movies, Jonathan Safran Foer, Entertainment News

I keep want to referring to Stephen Daldry's film of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as, instead, ..& Incredibly Cute. That...

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Meatless Monday: Hero With A Thousand Faces

Ellen Kanner | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Baskin and Robbins, Joseph Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces, Earthsave, John Robbins, Buddha, Michael Pollan, Ulysses, Eric Schlosser, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News

The pivotal part of the hero's experience, the payoff, is enlightenment. It took Buddha six years to get there. We can get there faster, especially with a diet that's plant-rich, not processed.

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Sandra Bullock Explains Her Emotional Comeback

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Sandra Bullock Oscar, Tom Hanks, Video, Sandra Bullock Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Sandra Bullock, Sandra Bullock Divorce, Thomas Horn, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Entertainment News

Following her Oscar win for 2009's "The Blindside," Sandra Bullock decided to leave show business for a little while. With a new son and a divorce, sh...

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WATCH: Man On Mission To Draw Every Person In New York

Posted 12.18.2011

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What's one thing all New Yorkers have in common? Sketch artist Jason Polan is out to draw every last one of them. Since 2008, Polan has been creat...

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17 Smart Books You Must Read This Summer

Lisa Bloom | Posted 09.13.2011

How do you find great books to read? Here's a reading list of books that will stir you, provoke you, keep you up at night and make you late for work, and get your grey matter sizzling.

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WATCH: Best And Worst Book Trailers

Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Melville House, Moby Awards, Ron Charles, Bad Book Trailers, Lane Smith, Literary Prizes, Tree of Codes, Moby Award Winners, Video, Super Sad True Love Story, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Roach, Freedom, Don Winslow, James Franco, Sloane Crosley, Jonathan Safran Foer, Book Trailers, Books News

It was an irresistible proposition when Meliville House asked us to be part of the judging panel for the Moby Awards for best and worst book trailers....

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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Why This Man Wants To Be Insulted By Authors

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Sedaris, Charles D'Ambrosio, Jacob De Zoet, Insulted by Authors, Author Insults, Jennifer Egan, Bill Ryan, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Somewhere in New York this week, Bill Ryan might be found standing in line after an author's reading, waiting his turn for a few words and a signature...

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How Well Do You Know The Brooklyn Literary Scene? Take This Quiz To Find Out

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Chua, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman, New York, Brooklyn Literary Scene, Paul Auster, Brooklyn, Mos Def, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Novelist Jonathan Lethem took a shot at New York's fashionably bookish borough this weekend, telling the LA Times that Brooklyn has become "repulsive ...

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Meatless Monday: Don't Be Cruel

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alice Waters, Elvis Presley, Pet Food Recall, Jonathan Safran Foer, Hal Herzog, Meatless Monday, Green News

We love our animals, spending $35 to $45 billion a year on pet care. The weird thing is, despite the care we lavish on our pets, we don't have a problem eating animals for dinner.

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Books For Christmas: Alternative Titles For The Holiday

guardian.co.uk | Benedicte Page | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Xmas Books, Christmas Books, Best Books, Book List, Visual Editions, Holiday Books, Jonathan Safran Foer, Alternative Books, Books News

Forget the celebrity memoirs, selling in their dispiriting droves to the imaginatively challenged in search of a Christmas present-by-numbers. Elsewhe...

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