Riffing on Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, Part 1: Little Baby Lamb
At his Vroman’s Bookstore reading, Jonathan Safran Foer posited that children do not come by the eating of meat naturally. That naturally they would have an aversion to it. That we adults must lead children to meat, and ingrain the habit in them – by serving as role model meat eaters, and by serving up [...]
April 13, 2010
Tags: Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, vegetarian, Vroman's Posted in: Book Riffs 
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Coming: Foer and animals. But first: last installment on two-bit words
Well, the synchronicity scientists would nod an “I told you so” to the fact that I went to buy a WEB magazine at Vroman’s in Pasadena on Saturday and learned that Jonathan Safran Foer would be there the next day to present his new book, Eating Animals. This after I had recently written my first [...]
November 9, 2009
Tags: Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, Pasadena, Vroman's Posted in: Reading Diary No Comments
Contemplating Jonathan Safran Foer at Vroman’s in Pasadena
Foer grew up with computers, computer games, the WEB, video games, desktop publishing; it is not a great surprise that when he sat down to write novels, he was influenced by his exposure to new media, and made use of pictures, stories told from different viewpoints, typography design and graphical interfaces. I’m back on Colorado [...]
August 14, 2009
Tags: California, electronic literature, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer, interactive, new media, Pasadena, Vroman's Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary 3 Comments