But how well do these conceits gel together? The rumor was rampant enough to elicit Foer and Portman to publish a selection of their putatively platonic email exchanges in the New York Times Magazine in June. That feature received a lot of press. But it is also an admission of the present, namely that the wunderkind who dazzled critics with Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is now a dad and a divorcee. I believe it is more mature.
But then, the last decade of life was a departure for me. Gone mostly is the typographical graffiti that he previously deployed with abandon. A few pages later, we find out that Jacob and Julia have become sexually estranged, a sign of a greater separation. The movement toward estrangement—from each other, and from themselves—took place in far smaller, subtler steps.
When she discovers the phone he has been secretly using for his sexts, she confesses her own conflicted feelings for a family friend. Foer is selfish with and protective of Jacob—he is careful with how examines his protagonist, and a lot of detail is left uncolored. Why, for example, has Jacob, an award-winning novelist, stopped writing literature to focus on TV dramas? It is Jacob that remains in focus.
And this pronouncement is heard loudest when Foer chucks a catastrophe into the novel: 7. Hostilities between Muslim nations and the Jewish state potboil. Foer allegedly separated from his wife of 10 years in to be with Portman, who he'd fallen in love with mostly via email.
The two had become friends 12 years earlier when she attended "one of my first readings for my first novel", according to Foer. Portman, a fan of the blockbuster novel Everything Is Illuminated, struck up a friendship with the author, and the two began exchanging emails and cultivated a close personal friendship that would last well over a decade.
When Foer published his nonfiction book Eating Animals, Portman wrote an impassioned op-ed for The Huffington Post, saying the book "changed" her into a vegan activist after 20 years as a vegetarian.
She said the points Foer "bravely details" in his book, about the human suffering involved in the animal agriculture industry were "universally compelling".
Portman then signed on to co-produce and narrate a documentary based on the book, which Foer would write. According to gossip columns, it is during this period Foer fell for Portman and decided Portman had also fallen in love with him.
While the documentary was only released in , Foer split with his wife, acclaimed novelist Nicole Krauss, in Daulerio, of notorious gossip site Gawker, wrote in a since-deleted post on Ratter Foer told his then wife he had fallen in love with a beautiful and intellectual movie star.
Daulerio also claimed Foer had not checked with Portman to see if she returned his feelings but had boldly assumed the feeling was mutual. Foer divorced from his wife, and when he approached Portman with the news, she was shocked, according to Daulerio.
Portman, who has been married to Millepied since , reportedly had to tell the famous writer the feeling was not mutual. It's worth noting everything pertaining to Foer and Portman, and a relationship developed over emails, is a mere suggestion by a gossip columnist. In , two years after Foer's divorce, the pair decided to release a set of their emails to T Magazine, ostensibly to promote their various projects — hers, a directorial debut, and his, the release of his first novel in over a decade.
The exchange is based on the premise Foer "lost all his emails" and was unable to retrieve their 12 years of correspondence. So the pair made public a new set of exchanges to "replenish" and "redeem" what happened in the past. Look, it's pretty weird.
I mean, one thing that springs to mind immediately is that you don't really lose emails. Surely, if one user loses them the other, say Portman, would still have them on her end. After a lifetime predicated upon his own self-assurance and the accumulation of wealth, Epstein is now bent on divesting himself of his millions. Next we meet the young Brooklyn novelist in an authorial and marital slump. Forest Dark —a study in storytelling, in Jewishness and representation, in how we come to define ourselves—is, in many ways, characteristically Krauss.
Since their marriage in , Krauss has published two best-selling novels and secured two massive book deals: two books each; one for six figures, the other for a rumored seven. Yet an inordinate amount of ink has been dedicated to the particulars of her marriage. By that time, he was dating Michelle Williams. While her parents raised Krauss and her siblings—an older brother and a younger sister—primarily in a Bauhaus-style home on Long Island, her parents and grandparents hail from, variously, England, Israel, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, and Hungary.
Man Walks Into a Room , which centers on a man with amnesia and which she wrote in a year at age 25, became that broken, open thing. That it earned praise from the New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly alike proved emblematic of the kind of widespread appeal each of her books would engender—while intelligent, intellectual, and arguably highbrow, her woven-together, multiperspective style is also highly readable.
Something lodged in my chest that needed to be dissolved by addressing it over a long period of time. Krauss has shaken off a long-held sense that the most commanding literary voice is a masculine one. Obviously the latter.
Krauss has also shaken off a long-held sense that the most commanding literary voice is a masculine one.
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