Authors We Love

Staring at my bookcase in amazement today for the prose of lit rock star Jonathan Safran Foer. Here's New York's new Truman Capote. Foer has his youth, a movie deal, and his cartoon likeness in an episode of The Simpsons.

If you haven't already, go today and read this book and this book. (And if you have read the first one, check out this site.)

Foer has a distinctive voice—one that’s lyrical and literary; one that relies on syntactical artistry. It’s the sort of prose that makes the writing community hopeful, as it did in reviews by his Princeton mentors, Joyce Carol Oates and Jeffery Eugenides.

Bravo, Mr. Foer.