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Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two bestselling, award-winning novels, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a bestselling work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Technology and communication (or lack thereof) plays a big role in your book HERE I AM. Do you think we're able to express ourselves better or worse in the age of Snapchat and emoticons?

Jonathan Safran Foer We express ourselves differently. Sometimes it feels better, or at least easier. Sometimes it feels worse, or at least shallower. You're probably aski…moreWe express ourselves differently. Sometimes it feels better, or at least easier. Sometimes it feels worse, or at least shallower. You're probably asking the wrong person, though, as I don't use Snapchat or emoticons. Technology is used in the book not in order to comment on expression, but as a means for characters to be "elsewhere." Jacob conducts a fantasy life through his phone, but also by browsing real estate ads on the Internet and imagining lives he knows he'll never live. Sam, his eldest son, spends much of his free time in the virtual world of "Other Life." And Jacob's father, Irv, is a kind of xenophobic lawn sprinkler, shooting off his every opinion—and some opinions he probably doesn't actually have—by means of his blog. In the cases of those three generations of Bloch men, technology facilitates being somewhere other than in one's life.(less)

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Eating Animals is an expressly political book (and obviously a work of nonfiction). Do you think of your novels as being political in any way or is that strictly the domain of nonfiction for you?

Jonathan Safran Foer There is a difference between being "political" and advancing a political argument. HERE I AM is overflowing with arguments, but doesn't have an argum…moreThere is a difference between being "political" and advancing a political argument. HERE I AM is overflowing with arguments, but doesn't have an argument to make. So there is undeniably a sense in which it is political—it overflows with politics. (It seems that anything that in any way involves Israel involves politics.) But unlike EATING ANIMALS, which as you say is "expressly political"—I was making a case against factory farming—this novel presents a chorus of perspectives and voices, not holding one above others, but creating an argumentative environment. (less)

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	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 3.97 avg rating — 426,757 ratings — published 2005 — 159 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything is Illuminated 3.89 avg rating — 181,486 ratings — published 2002 — 167 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eating Animals 4.21 avg rating — 79,068 ratings — published 2009 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here I Am 3.64 avg rating — 27,032 ratings — published 2016 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast 3.69 avg rating — 16,482 ratings — published 2019 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tree of Codes 3.84 avg rating — 3,784 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 4.22 avg rating — 1,240 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future Dictionary of America by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dave Eggers (Editor), Nicole Krauss (Editor) 3.53 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning 3.93 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author), Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Coover (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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