Tag Archives: Jonathan Safran Foer

The Invention of Everything Else

By Michele Filgate | Published: May 8, 2009

Hi fellow bookworms Things I’ve read lately: The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt, which is a terrific, imaginative story of the great inventor Tessla and a chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker. It makes me have a new appreciation for the pigeons that hang out on the sidewalks of Manhattan. There’s also something [...]

Jonathan Safran Foer

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: May 26, 2003

“…with writing I realized not so much that I was born to be a writer but that writing was much more flexible activity than I had previously thought. That its constraints were my constraints. It was limited by my limitations. And that was exciting.”