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Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander on their ‘New American Haggadah’

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The Haggadah, the Jewish religious text read at Passover, is 3,000 years old. Novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander have recently published the New American Haggadah, a distinctly modern Jewish-American version of the text.

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander on their ‘New American Haggadah’

Aha Moment: Jonathan Safran Foer on Joseph Cornell

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How Sept. 11, 2001 Affected Writing in the US and Elsewhere

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Summer Book Club: Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’

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Aha Moment: Joseph Cornell’s Boxes

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Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated and the upcoming non-fiction work Eating Animals, explains how boxes by the artist Joseph Cornell inspired his own creative process. (Originally aired: August 10, 2007)

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Authors on the legacy of J.D. Salinger

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We talk with two novelists, Jonathan Safran Foer and Frank Portman, about J.D. Salinger’s legacy and how it inspired them.

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