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“... every day from nine until noon so that curious fans can ‘watch her creative juices flow’. At Jonathan SafranFoer’s website – www.theprojectmuseum.com – the interactive pages are more high-minded. The site makes brief mention of Everything Is Illuminated – the American writer’s first novel, written at ...”

“... in an introductory note by a Conjunctions associate editor, an unknown 22-year-old American called Jonathan SafranFoer. ‘These pages of Singer’s are not great literature,’ Foer wrote. ‘Surely they were never intended to be published’: But like all great literature, like ...”

“... years, Malamud has been championed by a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Dara Horn, Jonathan SafranFoer, Jonathan Lethem and Jonathan Rosen have all written loving introductions to his novels, and sometimes it seems that what they ...”

“... too often choreographed towards a schematic finish. In a conversation in the Guardian the novelist Jonathan SafranFoer told Englander that he admired his work because it ‘didn’t feel corny or sentimental but just the opposite’. Yet Englander’s appropriation of Carver’s title and scene-setting is corny, in the ...”

“... whole thing.’ Recent experiments with the novel’s material form are indebted to Phillips. Jonathan SafranFoer produced Tree of Codes (2010) by cutting away most of the text of his favourite book, Bruno Schulz’s short story collection The Street of Crocodiles (1934; translated into English in 1963), to leave ...”

“... events nor the burdened child of those poor actors. Krauss’s novel is dedicated to her husband, Jonathan SafranFoer, and to her four grandparents. Startlingly, and with characteristic sentimentality, the dedication page bears a row of four old-fashioned passport photos from the 1930s and 1940s, reminiscent of the ...”

“... academics and their MFA spawn, Dickensian verisimilitude courtesy of Wikipedia (cf Rachel Kushner, Jonathan SafranFoer et al). Something of this retrograde motion warps American criticism as well. Even today, when subjects Burroughs treated long before anyone else – the surveillance state, the technological ...”

“... vile conditions, but for supermarket meat it is the norm by a colossal margin. In Eating Animals, Jonathan SafranFoer noted that there wasn’t enough ‘non-factory chicken produced in America to feed the population of Staten Island’. Farmageddon states that ‘99 per cent of broiler chickens in America’ are ...”

“... Brick, has vanished into the vault, as have Noah Baumbach’s unfinished pilot for a TV version of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, starring Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Greta Gerwig, a Ridley Scott-directed pilot for a rejected show called The Vatican, and many others.After Chase shot the pilot for The Sopranos, ten months went by before HBO got ...”

“... I think that theory is … up a gum tree.AS: Can I ask you about two other texts? Have you seen Jonathan SafranFoer’s The Tree of Codes?TP: Jonathan! Jonathan came to see me about ten years ago. He said he really liked A Humument; he said he ...”

“... for his pacification. This is the memory that makes violence impossible. In the final pages of Jonathan SafranFoer’s 9/11 novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer introduced simulations of a photograph of a man falling from the World Trade Center. These replicas ...”