Jonathan Safran Foer reads from "Eating Animals"
Reading at 6:30pm, Old First Reformed Church (just across the street, at 7th Avenue and Carroll) followed by wine & cheese reception at 8:00pm at Community Bookstore (Suggested $10 donation)
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Nov 19, 2009 from 06:30 PM to 09:00 PM |
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Everyone is talking about this book*. As well they should be; we’re all aware by now that our food choices have enormous environmental, health, and economic consequences, and Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)’s essays are an exceptionally human exploration of the issues. We hereby invite you to join us for one of the more intimate stops on this nation-wide tour, which takes place in the author’s own neighborhood. The reading is at Old First, and Jonathan will be joining us for a reception and signing afterwards, at the bookstore.
More about the book:
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most acclaimed young writers of his generation, a "certified wunderkind" (Time) whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. He has earned a National Jewish Book Award, a Guardian First Book Award, and remarkable praise for his first two novels, Everything Is Illuminated (adapted for film in 2005) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. EATING ANIMALS is his first work of nonfiction.
*To name just a few… Paste Magazine, PETA, CNN, Salon, The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, NPR, Flavor Pill, Epicurious.com, Vanity Fair… pick a news source; they’ve covered it. Even Natalie Portman has weighed in (in a Huffington Post article, she credits this book for her switch from a vegetarian to a vegan diet). And I’ve yet to find an even lukewarm review. What will YOU think?
