[Yale-readings] Jonathan Safran Foer Reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

>
>Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer
>
>Tuesday, September 25, 2007  7 p.m.
>
>St. Anthony Hall
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>483 College Street
>
>Jonathan Safran Foer, author of two novels and dozens of short stories, 
>will be presenting a public reading at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 25, at 
>St. Anthony Hall, 483 College Street, as a John Christophe Schlesinger 
>Visiting Writer to campus. Foer is one of the most acclaimed and 
>controversial young novelists writing today. After studying with Joyce 
>Carol Oates at Princeton, he published his first novel, Everything Is 
>Illuminated, in 2002 to widespread and fervent critical acclaim, winning 
>the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and The Guardian First Book 
>Award. Inspired by Foer's own familial research in Ukraine, the book 
>follows a young man named for the author on his surreal quest for family 
>and personal identity, and was adapted for the screen in 2005. Foer's 
>second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, examines post-9/11 New 
>York City through the eyes of a precocious nine-year-old, and was 
>published in 2005.
>
>             The John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writers are 
> supported by a gift from Richard and Sheila Schlesinger of Pound Ridge, 
> New York, in honor of their son, John Christophe, a talented 
> undergraduate writer. Mr. Foer's visit is co-sponsored by Jonathan 
> Edwards College.
>
>Susan Bianconi
>Associate Editor
>The Yale Review
>susan.bianconi at yale.edu

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