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Who's Afraid of Jonathan Safran Foer?
The Guardian examines the phenomenon of Schadenfoer, also known as hatred of the rich young Brooklyn author Jonathan Safran Foer, he of the twee literary style and his seemingly charmed life. More »
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By SheilaComment by OlMuckyTerrahawk: I live in Park Slope and I really have to disagree with your assessment of this neighborhood as the most... 30 Responses | Other threads
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Jonathan Safran Foer and the Secret of the Mystery Book
A renovation of a grand Fifth Avenue apartment by a very creative architectual designer, Eric Clough, resulted in a scavenger-hunt puzzle being built into the place. The apartment—for a young family—was secretly outfitted by the designer with coded messages, scrolls, and and an original mystery book that gave clues. It was a magical game for the kids to solve—and the parents didn't even know it was being built into their house! Who was asked to be involved? And who turned it down? Why, Brooklyn novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. More »
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By SheilaComment by RollsRoyceRevenge: Too bad, because this story had potential to end with Foer walled up somewhere a la The Cask of Amontillado. more » | Other threads
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the shingles
Jonathan Safran Foer Has The Shingles
...according to a tipster who says this shocking fact was "revealed in an email to the writing class he's teaching at yale." Also: "heard he's very grumpy and said this week's essays had better make life worth living." Anyone else have more details? Is this our fault? Did we give him the shingles with our psychic ill-will?
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By PareeneComment by DoppleSeth: Nooo, don't use that picture -- you might give somebody ideas about running up there and try to do their... more » | Other threads
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underminers
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, UNDERMINER
In response to Vanity Fair's earlier item about the play by an old friend of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, about how novelist Jonathan Safran Foer suddenly got very rich and famous while his old friend did not, Foer says, "his play is hilarious and great. I hope it's bigger than The Lion King." [VF, Earlier] -
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Someone Wrote a Play About Jonathan Safran Foer!
From lovable Brooklynite novelist Jonathan "Safran" Foer (the hip one!) to New Republic editor Franklin Foer (he's the serious one!) to stunt-rememberer and baby brother Joshua Foer (he will come up with some way to bother us later!), everyone loves the Foer Brothers. Everyone except, apparently, playwright Itamar Moses, who has written a play about how much he hates his successful old band camp buddy Jonathan Safran Foer. Vanity Fair noticed that the two main characters in Moses's The Four of Us are quite a bit like Moses and Foer, as one is a mostly unknown playwright and the other is a ridiculously successful young novelist. There is some jealousy. Then Moses makes fun of Liev Schreiber! More »
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By PareeneComment by famousauthor: @jaywalke: Thanks! I'll steal that idea and run with it. more » | Other threads
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Being a Brooklyn Writer turns out to be exactly how you imagine it to be, if debut novelist Porochista Khakpour's Facebook status update is to be believed.
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By Emily GouldComment by GayatriSpivak: @NotJaffo: I think he misunderstood oneof his muses. She was telling him to walk backwards off the top of a... more » | Other threads
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incredibly anxious and extremely teachy
"Yale Visiting Professor Jonathan Safran Foer" has a nice ring to it! According to one Yale English prof: "He's got quite a buzz surrounding him right now in literary circles." Oh! Hmm. Also! "Although Foer was rejected from Yale as a high school senior and attended Princeton University as an undergraduate, his brother Joshua Foer '04 said he thinks Jonathan and Yale will be a better match this time around." [Yale Daily News]
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By ChoireComment by GayatriSpivak: @MisterB: I hear that Joyce Carol Oates edited that soundbite. more » | Other threads
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maghag
'Page Six Magazine': The Glossy Publication Of Our Functionally Retarded Generation
The best way to describe the brand new Page Six Magazine is New York as told to Life & Style, a verdict we would have delivered sooner if the president of Iran had not provided such irresistible fodder for our celebrity. fashion. feminism. website.* To be sure, we hear the News Corp overlords gave the editorial team approximately forty-seven minutes to launch the thing, but on the other hand, the editorial team was stocked with alums of Jane and Radar and the magazine reads like it's vying to steal the transit authority's lucrative "Learn English" account. In a way, it's almost appealingly illiterate: snotty society types like Arden Wohl and Carine Roitfeld feel more like footballer's wives in the large, bubbly fonts offset by subheads laden with retarded "Six" puns. (SIXaholic! SIX and the City!) [Jezebel] -
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The Jewish Cabal Of Publishing
Hey, have you ever noticed that famous bestselling authors like Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nathan Englander, Nicole Krauss, and Myla Goldberg all have something in common? That's right: Jewiness. I know, you're shocked. But did you also know that an under-the-radar Jewish organization called the Jewish Book Council may be somewhat responsible for these young heebs' rises to fame and fortune? In a column that will run in this Sunday's book review headlined 'Star Search' (heh!), Rachel Donadio explains the inner workings of the Jewish Book Network, which holds American Idol-style cattle call auditions, described as "somewhere between J-Date and a camel auction," for Jewish authors. The winners then get to tour Jewish book fairs around the country, which doesn't sound like such a prize until you learn, as we just did from a publicist, that authors can sell "up to 300 books" at each of these events, which is nothing to sneeze at. The Jew tour does have its perils, though, as one author learned: "Do not follow the woman who has just published a book on how all her children were murdered in Treblinka. It's much preferable to follow the woman who has 100 halvah recipes." Oh, those nutty Jews and their culturally-specific brand of humor!
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By Emily GouldComment by depardoo: So that's how the Protocols of the Elders of Zion got published. more » | Other threads
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lit boys
Joshua Ferris Running Scared Of Foer-Krauss Mafia
Young Joshua Ferris's debut about working at an ad agency at the tail end of the dot-com boom is one of our favorite books we've read in a while, so it pains us to have to acknowledge that he is a pussy. At his book party, he told us in no uncertain terms that Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss "deserve all the shit you guys heap on them." Ok, it was a festive occasion and perhaps the celebratory cocktails had loosened Ferris's lips, but! Here's his current take on whether or not The Most Important, Rich, and Precocious Literary Couple Of Our Time deserve to be mocked: "Whatever shit they may or may not have deserved is far less than the shit I deserve for having said publicly that they deserved any shit whatsoever. I spoke unnecessarily of a very minor matter about which I knew very little, and so despite the likelihood that my comments didn't even reach them, I'm glad you asked, so that I can set the record straight: I'm the shitheel." I'll say!
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By Emily GouldComment by Zulkey: Ellagood, was her name Romy? or Michelle? more » | Other threads
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Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space
Oh, those crazy Safran Foer Krausses! We had almost managed to convince ourselves that they didn't matter anymore—after all, they've been too busy pooping out little scribblers to crank out any irritatingly overhyped books lately. But last night we heard this tidbit, from a source close to the writers, that made us feel the inadequacy of our lives and real estate holdings as sharply as we did when we first read of their acquisition of a $6.7 million Park Slope brownstone. Apparently, Nicole was recently asked why she and Jon found it necessary to move from their old house, a $3 millionish brownstone a block away. "Well," she said, "You know, we're planning to have at least two kids, and obviously we all need our own floor." More »
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By Emily GouldComment by benmaimon: I completely understand. One floor's for milchik. The other's for flayschik. more » | Other threads
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Glaring Literary Power Couple Omission
Yesterday, we asked you to choose your least favorite among the Jonathans, Bens and Davids of the literary world and their lovely writer-spouses. You voted for Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss by a pretty substantial margin, spanking runners-up Davendela and Michayelet. Nicole wins a signed copy of the execrable Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Jonathan will receive a signed copy of the 'we hear it's not bad but we have a deep-seated antipathy towards anything contemporary with 'Love' in the title which always strikes us as a marketing gimmick' The History of Love. The couple will also receive a free lifetime subscription to nonexistent UnderCover magazine as well as the privilege of being henceforth referred to as Jonicole. Unfortunately, we didn't include every lit-scene power pair in our poll; a commenter wrote in Salman and Padma (how could we forget her contribution to the canon, Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet?). But the omission we feel worst about has got to be this one: More »
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By Emily GouldComment by mamacita: Do Will and Shari count as a literary couple? more » | Other threads
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Annoying Literary Lovebirds Poll
For a long time, we've dreamt of a magazine called UnderCover, which would basically be Us Weekly but for literary "celebrities." The whole thing would be like "Jennifer Egan loses the baby weight!" and telephoto lens shots of JonathanFranzenSafran Foer (admit it, you can't keep 'em all straight either) and Nicole Krauss's Park Slope manse. Sadly, the market could never sustain such a thing, but we figure the least we can do in order to keep the dream alive is to do a poll inspired by your response to our item about Heidi Julavitz yesterday. In it, we called Heidi and her dh, Ben Marcus, our "fourth least favorite literary power couple," and it got us to wondering: who's your fourth least favorite literary power couple? And while we're at it, who's your most least favorite l. p. c.? There is only one way to find out. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by lorne bialystok: Is it annoying when authors make such a big splash while only in their twenties? JSF and NK may... more » | Other threads
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joshua foer
Joshua Foer Sells Film Rights to Unwritten Memoir
So yeah, Slate scribe and Jonathan Safran Foer sib Joshua sold his memoir about memorizing shit to Anne Godoff for a cool 1.2 million, like we said. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by themotivationspeaker.com: I am a memory guy who is going to do the same as Josh Foer. Enter the US Memory Championships... more » | Other threads
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Sara Gruen To Find Out What Happens When Monkeys Stop Being Polite, Start Getting Real
A tipster informs us that the author of summertime sleeper hit Water For Elephants has sold her next two books, the first of which, The Ape House, is about "monkeys who live together in a house," to Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel and Grau, for the highly improbable-seeming (but hey, whatever) sum of 5.2 million, making Joshua Foer's 1.2 million deal (a memoir which sold to Ann Godoff yesterday, and yes he's JSF's little bro) look like a bargain. Bookscan has Elephants at a totally respectable but not mindblowing 132,503 — Bookscan, of course, is always sorta wrong — and foreign rights to it sold all over the place. Still, 5.2 million for a follow-up to a book which — well, we'll let this book blogger sum it up: "the plot is non-existent, the characters are superficial, there is too much talk of penises and it is just a completely non-memorable basic quick read." So what we want to know is: really? And, if so, was it because of penises? Tell us.
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By Emily GouldComment by raincoaster: It's irrational in that everybody knows that monkey penises are like way smaller than elephant penises. It's not like it... more » | Other threads
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Bookish Brooklyn Party to Feature Jonathans, Maclarens
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Jonathan Safran Foer Will Not Stop Until You Renounce Meat
We're not normally in the business of alerting you to horrifying videos of mistreated animals — we prefer to limit ourselves to only presenting that sort of footage when it has to do with magazine assistants. So we'll spare you the graphic video we just watched about a kosher slaughterhouse, even if the footage is narrated by the eerily calm Jonathan Safran Foer ("These animals had their throats ripped out while they were still fully conscious"). More »
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By JessicaComment by grandenchilada: When I was growing up a little Jewish girl in Mexico, the story was that the kosher way of killing... more » | Other threads
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new york post
The Simple Pleasure of a Luscious Lede
Too often, we find that an article doesn't live up to its promise. As journalists are wont to do, they reel us in with a fantastic lede, our panties get in a pleasant twist, and then — nothing. The article peaks with its first sentence, leaving us with little more than a crippling case of desire. More » -
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Remainders: Will Ferrell Still Alive!
• Will Ferrell did not die in a paragliding accident. And if he did, do you really think you'd hear about it through a barely literate press release? [Defamer] More »
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By JessicaComment by the earl grey: yeah that simple plan clip really cant compare to led zep and the shark story from seattle, eh? ... more » | Other threads
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Somebody Please Stop the Foers (and Take Their Real Estate)
We nearly forgot: Today's Washington Post brings news that the USA Memory Championship took place here in New York yesterday, and it was won by a 23-year-old Yale graduate named Joshua Foer. He's also, as the more wonkily inclined among you might chose to label him, the 23-year-younger brother of new New Republic editor Franklin Foer. Or, for all you Park Slopians, the 23-year-old younger brother of hipster-chic novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. More »
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By JesseComment by SheWhoCannotBeNamed: I feel like Gideon Yago should be an honorary Foer. more » | Other threads
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associated press
Everything is Abbreviated
It's day two of asap, the AP's new "younger audience service," and we think we now understand it: Younger audiences like brief, totally inconsequential and news-free items on ridiculously overexposed "young" "celebrities." More » -
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Remainders: Paris Hilton's Sidekick Hacker Sentenced to Life Without 'House of Wax'
• Paris Hilton sleeps a little more soundly at night knowing that a teen has been sentenced for the hacking of her Sidekick. And so the infotainment industry exhales and Senator Durbin gets his much-needed closure. [eWEEK] More » -
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More on Foer: He's Spawning!
This is why we should be reading the Houston Chronicle more closely: More » -
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Jonathan Safran Who?
It seems that the reach of literary wunderjew Jonathan Safran Foer only goes so far: More » -
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Publishing industry secrets
The Observer's Sara Nelson on why the publishing industry keeps advance amounts and sales figures under wraps: "Nobody talks about publishing numbers because they are so unbelievably low...When told, for example, that last year s hit novel, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, sold about 100,000 copies in hardcover, one editor of a huge-circulation monthly gasped and said, 'If I only sold 100,000 magazines, I'd get fired.'" More » -
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Ung Lee, award winning author and plagiarist
Ung Lee, a 2002 Princeton senior and Joyce Carol Oates protégé (shades of Jonathan Safran Foer) was recently awarded several fiction prizes. The only problem is that at least one of his prize-winning stories was plagiarized. [Ed. note—what, daddy's trust fund manager couldn't buy you an original work? Oops. Sorry. It's Princeton. Involuntary response.] Seth Shafer—the author of the story—comments. More »
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