Jonathan Safran Foer

Ethics of Eating Animals: NY Times Announces a Contest and FiTR Provides a Crib

Tomorrow's New York Times Magazine jumps the shark and provides its readers with a moral challenge: Justify your consumption of meat with a 600 word essay. Of course, the dice are loaded, and anyone who favors meat - either actively or passively - has a long row to hoe. Arguments like "everyone does ... More >>

Some Nouns, Some Verbs, and 9/11: Milking Tragedy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Castro's CIA Milkshake! Plus Other Tales From Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified U.S. History

Microcosm PublishingZinn Foer​Milkshakes meet mind control, acid dropping, and American hegemony in Michael Hoerger and Mia Partlow's new book, Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified U.S. History, which makes the case that food and government conspiracy go hand in hand.

Brooklyn Parents: Stick Your Kid in the New Tom Hanks, Jonathan Safran Foer Movie

​ Spotted in Park Slope by Runnin' Scared friend @stvspl: a casting notice for "9-13 year-old Caucasian boys" to appear in the upcoming Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel about a nine-year-old boy's life in the aftermath of September 11t ... More >>

Cover Girl: Is Nicole Krauss Being Objectified on the Cover of the New York Times Book Review?

​The New York Times Book Review for October 17, 2010 features Great House author Nicole Krauss on its cover. The book, her highly anticipated third novel and the follow-up to The History of Love, is reviewed by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in an article entitled "Hearts Full of Sorrow," teased ... More >>

Are Creative Writing MFAs a "Ponzi Scheme"?

​A Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in America is a curious piece of paper, one that says something about the person holding it -- mostly, that they survived an MFA program without killing themselves, which apparently isn't easy -- and also, in some circles, acts as a certification that ... More >>

Eating Animals Harder to Swallow Overseas

Eating Animals isn't so bad in Europe.​Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals makes a great case for giving up meat. Or at least it does here in America, where industrial farming dominates. As the Wall Street Journal reports, publishers of the U.K. edition of the bestselling book were forced to ... More >>

Stephen Colbert & Jonathan Safran Foer Talk Turkey, Linger Over Bacon

Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer got a fair shake on The Colbert Report last night, where he discussed infertile turkeys and the proliferation of tainted meat -- that is, until Colbert broke out a plate of bacon and offered his guest a piece. A mildly ruffled Safran Foer took it in strid ... More >>

Moby Chews on Some Gristle

​Being New York's most recognizable bald vegan just wasn't enough for Moby, who's now added "anthology editor" to his list of accomplishments. The musician and Teany co-founder has just edited (with Miyun Park) Gristle, a collection of essays about meat.

Josh Ozersky on His Upcoming Wedding Feast, the Demise of the Feedbag and (Food) World Domination

Jason Perlow/Hamburger AmericaJosh Ozersky and friend.​ Last Friday morning on the windswept tundra that was Soho, one half expected to encounter a pack of wolves trundling down Spring Street. Instead, a larger, equally hungry apparition materialized in the mercifully insulated confines of Bal ... More >>

Big Food Cuts Salt & Sugar; Jonathan Safran Foer's Top Meat-Free Picks

​14 must-haves for your holiday spread include Murray's Cheese's artisanal charcuterie and cheese board, Steve's Meat Market's smoked ham, Sahadi's olives, nuts, and dried fruit; and Moishe's Bake Shop's jelly doughnuts, mixed rugelach, babka, and Hanukkah cookies. [NY Daily News] Hotel Grif ... More >>

The Simpsons Discover the Heart of American Distillation: Moonshine!

Family Guy may be addressing the renewed interest in vegetarianism, sparked by books like Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, but The Simpsons are onto another trend: moonshine!

Jonathan Safran Foer Speaks Up About 'Eating Animals'

​When Natalie Portman compared eating meat to rape in her Huffington Post account of how reading Eating Animals transformed her from a vegetarian to a staunch vegan, she may have been missing the point. The book, many agree, is less about shunning meat and more about shunning industrially farm ... More >>

Cruelty-Free Pre-Thanksgiving with Lou Reed, Others at Tavern on the Green

​Planning to tuck into a nice, fat turkey this Thanksgiving? What are you, sick? Turkeys are your animal companions. Repent of your carnivorism in the traditional way -- with celebrities! On November 22, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Russell Simmons will host "Celebration FOR The Turkeys" ... More >>

Russell Simmons Celebrates Our Feathered Friends

​The Def Jam co-founder will host a Celebration FOR the Turkeys (i.e., not AGAINST) on Sunday, November 22, accompanied by like-minded blowhards Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Jonathan Safran Foer, a/k/a the guy who ruined Thanksgiving for thousands of families this year with his new Eating Ani ... More >>

The Pollan/Safran Foer Effect: Even 'Bones' Gets Food Political

Books like Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and the Michael Pollan oeuvre aren't just turning vegetarian starlets into hardcore vegans. Their message of the evils of factory farming may also be reaching mainstream television audiences across the country via such innocuous shows as FOX's foren ... More >>

Newark Grocers Push Fruits & Veggies; Jonathan Safran Foer Asks, 'Why Not Eat Dog?'

​Costco will start accepting food stamps nationally after it started to accept them in New York earlier this year. The program should be operational in half the company's 407 warehouse-style stores by Thanksgiving, according to company officials. [NY Times] Small corner grocery stores in Newa ... More >>

'Top Chef': You Know That Leeks Aren't Protein, Right?

Bravo​ Things got off to a brisk start this week, with Mike sharpening his knives at the Top Chef ranch and Jen castigating herself for her previous televised culinary blunders. In the Quickfire kitchen, Padma and One of the Top Italian Chefs in the Country Paul Bartolotta told the chefs to ... More >>

Study: Junk Food Is Like Heroin; FDA May Ban Mexican Oysters

​A new study reveals that the brain responds to junk food the same way it does to heroin. According to researchers, "this is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings." [Grist] Meanwhile, Paul Rudnick, the author of I ... More >>

Jonathan Safran Foer's Against Meat

It isn't everyday that we find ourselves nodding over a vegetarian screed, but Jonathan Safran Foer's Against Meat in this weekend's New York Times Magazine is an uncommonly honest piece of writing. Most importantly, Safran Foer acknowledges the cultural loss that results from giving up meat--and th ... More >>

Jonathan Safran Foer Considers the Merits of 'Eating Animals'

lrargerich/flickr​To the list of descriptors commonly attached to Jonathan Safran Foer's name -- novelist, wunderkind, "corrupt and debased" -- we can now add conflicted omnivore. That's the driving theme of his new book, Eating Animals, a copy of which just arrived at FiTR HQ. Foer's book, ac ... More >>

Keith Gessen and Nathaniel Rich: The New-Gen Pen Men

Young New York lit-mag honchos write novels! (But should maybe stick to editing.)

Who's Buried in Atlantic Yards?

A resistance movement drowning its sorrows during a pub quiz in Red Hook

Michael Chabon's Heavy-Handed Gentlemen of the Road

They Semite Be Giants—next up from the Jewish New Wave Gentlemen of the Road

The Tentacles of Foreigners

Highbrow? Lowbrow? New York welcomes Spaceman Blues's alien invasion.

Map of the Word

New translations battle "language imperialism"

America's Next Top Supernovel

Granta once again takes bets on the nation's young literary talent

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Future, Unscripted

Fall pilots: Real deal, or no deal?

Trauma Drama: More 9-11 Movies

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

Table for Twelve

From bar mitzvah memories to video game worlds, this year's coffee-table books offers sentimental journeys

Everything's Been Understated in Foer Adaptation

Gypsy Punk

Ukrainian frontman reveals his plans for world domination

VLS Bestsellers List

Beach Lit 101

Savvy reading for spring and summer

Written With Invisible Ink

Is Nicole Krauss's book-within-a-book 'taut as a drum'?

PEN Pals: Literary Celebration Promotes Multiculturalism

Film

Everything Is Interrogated

Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer on 9-11, a Jay-Z sample, and the lowercase virtues of fiction

Books

Mo' Money

Tsunami benefits and political parties, oh my! Stars shine.

Only Connect . . . and Connect . . .

A journal within a series of letters within a mystery novel—and that's just the beginning

Heroic Restraint

The tongue is mightier than the sword

When Reading the 'Wrong' Books May Lead to a Sentence

Meister Singer

Without feathers: Reading young Jewish American writers through a radical forebear

Burning Bush

Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay

Beating around the Bush: Writers get the word out on voting

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