Jonathan Foer on Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - John Adams Institute

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestseller Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. Foer was one of Rolling Stone’s ‘People of the Year’ and Esquire’s ‘Best and Brightest.’ The film of Everything Is Illuminated, directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood, was released in August 2005. This video was recorded on June 7, 2005.