{"id":6955,"global_id":"inprinthouston.org?id=6955","global_id_lineage":["inprinthouston.org?id=6955"],"author":"21","status":"publish","date":"2016-03-03 10:00:26","date_utc":"2016-03-03 16:00:26","modified":"2016-09-09 10:46:16","modified_utc":"2016-09-09 15:46:16","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/event\/inprint-jonathan-safran-foer-reading\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/6955","title":"Inprint Jonathan Safran Foer Reading","description":"<p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7782\" src=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Here-I-Am-Foer.jpg\" alt=\"Here I Am - Foer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with\u00a0his debut novel\u00a0<em>Everything Is Illuminated.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cNot since Anthony Burgess&#8217;s\u00a0<em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>\u00a0has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance and brio,\u201d wrote Francine Prose in\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>. The novel, which was made into a feature film, won\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0First Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award.\u00a0His second novel\u00a0<em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/em>\u2014also made into an Oscar-nominated film\u2014became an international bestseller. Foer comes to Houston on a limited tour to share his highly anticipated new novel\u00a0<em>Here I Am<\/em>. Showcasing the high-energy inventiveness, irreverence, and emotional urgency of his previous work (with a harder edge),\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em> says the novel\u00a0\u201cunfolds over a single month in present-day Washington, as a Jewish family with three sons falls apart after the parents\u2019 marriage falters.<span style=\"color: #990000;\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Foer is \u201cone of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism to address great questions of truth, love, and beauty\u201d\u00a0(<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>).\u00a0Joyce Carol Oates says, \u201cHe will win your admiration, and he will break your heart.\u201d His books have been translated into more than 35 languages, and he is also author of\u00a0<em>Eating Animals\u00a0<\/em>(nonfiction) and\u00a0<em>The New American Haggadah\u00a0<\/em>(with Nathan Englander), and editor of an anthology of fiction and poetry, <em>A Convergence of Birds,<\/em>\u00a0inspired by the works of Joseph Cornell.<\/p>\n<p>Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.<br \/>\nTo order books by Jonathan Safran Foer at a discount <a href=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/for-readers\/inprint-margarett-root-brown-reading-series\/#book-signings-and-book-sales\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo submit questions for Jonathan Safran Foer <a href=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/for-readers\/inprint-margarett-root-brown-reading-series\/#questions-for-the-authors\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo learn more about the 2016\/2017 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Series <a href=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/for-readers\/inprint-margarett-root-brown-reading-series\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/dec\/21\/jonathan-safran-foer-to-publish-first-novel-decade-here-i-am\">\u201cJonathan Safran Foer to publish first novel in a decade,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, Dec. 21, 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/18\/new-novel-from-jonathan-safran-foer-coming-in-september\/?_r=0\">\u201cNew Novel From Jonathan Safran Foer Coming in September,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, December 18, 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2012\/feb\/10\/nathan-englander-conversation-jonathan-safran-foer\">\u201cIn Conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer,\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, Feb. 10, 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/11\/magazine\/11foer-t.html?_r=0\">\u201cAgainst Meat,\u201d <em>The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, October 7, 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