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From the Toronto International Festival of Authors - novelist Jonathan Safran Foer speaks with Eleanor about his writing and newest novel
This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the American wunderkind, Jonathan Safran Foer. His dazzling first novel, Everything is Illuminated, has just been made into a movie. He has a new book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which follows 9 year-old Oskar as he roams New York City, looking for the lock that matches a key he found amongst his father's possessions after he was killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Don DeLillo explores science and mortality in his new novel, Zero K
Eleanor speaks with American novelist Don DeLillo. The award-winning author of White Noise, Underworld and Libra has a new book called Zero K. Set in a secret cryonic freezing facility, the novel explores themes of science, religion and mortality.
Jonathan Lee talks about High Dive
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English novelist Jonathan Lee about his new book, High Dive. The novel reimagines the 1984 assassination attempt of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, known as "the Brighton bombing."