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Books by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- Paperback, 326 pages
The Future Dictionary of America
- Hardcover, 208 pages
New American Haggadah
- Hardcover, 160 pages
NPR stories about Jonathan Safran Foer
Author Interviews
New 'Haggadah': A Sacred Text, And A Good Read
April 1, 2012 Novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander set out to bring literary quality to an ancient sacred text with New American Haggadah. Foer edited the volume, while Englander provided new translations from the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
Author Interviews
Nathan Englander: Assimilating Thoughts Into Stories
February 15, 2012 In What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander writes about his own faith — and what it means to be Jewish — in stories that explore religious tension, Israeli-American relations and the Holocaust.
Books
'Family Dinner' Writer Dishes On Getting Kids To Table
November 16, 2010 Laurie David, climate activist and producer of An Inconvenient Truth, turns her focus toward home — at the dinner table. Her new book, The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time, offers a mix of recipes, dinner conversation topics, and tips for engaging kids at the table. Host Michel Martin speaks with David.
Summer Reading: Fiction
Excerpt: 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'
July 6, 2005 A fantastical 9-year-old boy serves as a pyschological medium for this emotional, multigenerational story. It's a device that works, according to Lucia Silva of Portrait of a Bookstore in a Studio City, Calif.
Commentary
Sarah Vowell: Memorial Gardens for Political Losers
September 30, 2004 Writer Sarah Vowell offers an essay on the idea of creating gardens for political losers. The essay is featured in The Future Dictionary of America, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, David Eggers and the staff of McSweeney's.
More Books
Author Interviews
A Portrait Of The Cartoonist And Her Mother
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel has a new memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother.
Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.
