Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space - Gawker Comments

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

benmaimon — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:15:38 EDT

I completely understand.
One floor's for milchik.
The other's for flayschik.

benmaimon

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

smartastic — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:51:42 EDT

@cdmunch: oh come on, he has talent. you don't have to like everything is illuminated to recognize that it is not a set of random words that anyone could pull out of their ass.

smartastic

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

cdmunch — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:52:11 EDT

It's not stupid, I just disagree.

cdmunch

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

Zombie G. Zomborgo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:15:06 EDT

@cdmunch:

That's just stupid. Of course he's got some talent. He wrote a whole book of relatively good prose, which is an achievement by anyone's standards.

The problem is that everyone ELSE kept wanting to make him into the LiteraryWunderkindEmperorMozart of our generation. And so they did. And so the entirely appropriate backlash to his entirely inappropriate slobberingly praised fame made him into a joke. Well, that interview with the Observer didn't help, either. He is sort of a jackass.

It's like Klosterman. Don't blame him. He's just doing the same thing he ALWAYS did. Blame everyone else for inappropriately praising him.

Zombie G. Zomborgo

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

Benpost — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:08:15 EDT

I'm sorry. They're nauseating. And I blame Joyce Carol Oates.

Benpost

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

cdmunch — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:56:46 EDT

What's there to be jealous of? Plenty of people have big houses and money but this guy has no talent.

cdmunch

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

colinsmith — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:06:37 EDT

@bartlebysmiles: Franklin is the older brother, not the father.

Also, see JupiterPluvius and Helen for the source of their financial backing.

colinsmith

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

JupiterPluvius — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:55:26 EDT

@Julia Allison: One of them is a trust-fund baby, honey.

Also, "separate floors"? What they need is separate PLOTS.

JupiterPluvius

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

gonzosmom — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:52:07 EDT

Great. A douchbag two'fer.

gonzosmom

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

she — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:51:40 EDT

Of course they'll have fertility issues - check out her Adam's Apple.

she

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

helen — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:43:50 EDT

i've heard some totally illegitimate rumormongering implying that daddy krauss pays more than a handful of the bills.

helen

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

bartlebysmiles — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:21:50 EDT

You know...she's joking. (forgive me.)

How can an author of two books afford a 7 mil brownstone? Did "Everything...." sell Stephen King style copies? Do they pay editors of the New Republic so much coin they can buy brownstones for their precocious children? Or do you just get these apartments when you're annointed a man of 21st Century letters? Background, please.

bartlebysmiles

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

Zombie G. Zomborgo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:19:17 EDT

It's like they're both looking in the same direction for their lost relevance.

Zombie G. Zomborgo

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

Sir Winston Thriller — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:09:56 EDT

They don't physically need that much space, but their egos tend to take up all the available space in a building.

Sir Winston Thriller

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

whatever — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:03:27 EDT

If my parents were Safran Foer and Krauss I would want to keep as far away from them as possible. Fuck my own floor, I'd want my own separate house.

whatever

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

KarenUhOh — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:56:43 EDT

Sorry, I'm not well-versed in the vagaries of Brooklyn real estate, but why can't they do what any normal parents would and lock their kids in the garage?

KarenUhOh

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

pbica — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:53:25 EDT

What do you want to bet that they have trouble conceiving those two planned kids, go through a big fertility hooha, then write about the miracle of their litter in NY Magazine?

pbica

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

Cookie Guggleman — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:39:21 EDT

Look for Krauss's next book: "A Floor of One's Own."

Cookie Guggleman

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

Julia Allison — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:28:51 EDT

Are writers allowed to say things like that? Writers who aren't married to i-bankers or trust fund babies, that is?

Julia Allison

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss Need Their Space

BK_KT — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:24:20 EDT

I used to nanny in their old brownstone (I know this because his magazines were still delivered in the mail) and that place was freaking ginormous. With two kids, each parent had their own floor for work, separate from the huge first and second floor living areas. How much more space to they need?

BK_KT