Jul 29, 2017
He’s framed a ticket to the World Series game Sandy Koufax did not pitch and a sheet of Freud’s stationery on which the great man did not write. In the second of a two-part episode recorded at JCC Manhattan, Jonathan Safran Foer describes the pleasures of the non-event and the joys of possessing archaeological...
Jul 23, 2017
By letting us not only understand but inhabit its characters, does a novel reveal the commonality of human experience or demonstrate our differences? Both, of course, but Jonathan Safran Foer is particularly sympathetic to the former. In the first of a two-part episode, we discuss the joys of intimacy and the...
Jul 16, 2017
Iceland is a paradise for writers, with its highly literate population, generous government grants, and total absence of cockroaches. Unfortunately, there are only 330,000 Icelanders, so even if they all bought your book, your horizons would be limited. Fortunately, that's why the novelist (and print-maker...
Jul 8, 2017
For 33 years, he was David Letterman's music director and comic sideman, a career that began in Canada with the Toronto production of Godspell, as did those of Gilda Radner, Martin Short, and Andrea Martin. Some production! Some careers! And now what? What do you do when your job ends after three decades? Savvy...
Jul 2, 2017
If you want to write about the Arctic, must you visit the Arctic? The splendid writers Jim Shepard and Joshua Ferris think not. Are they asserting: write about what you don't know? It's complicated. And delightfully so. A conversation about actual landscapes and landscapes of the imagination, at the Center for Fiction,...