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That's the goal, according to the site's two 26-year-old founders, Josh Foer and Dylan Thuras. They started the site, described as a "compendium of the world's wonders, curiosities and esoterica" three weeks ago, seeding it with strange places discovered on a road trip across the U.S. and during an extended stay in Hungary. Travelers from around the world have since chipped in with local oddities they've discovered on their own. (See TIME.com/travel for city guides, stories and advice...
...ascendancy in the mass market publishing industry, Dovey sees the cards as stacked against female novelists of a more literary inclination. “I suppose there are young female authors who are taken as seriously as, say, the Jonathans—you know, Jonathan Safran [Foer], Jonathan Lethem, or Jonathan Franzen—but not many of them. I can’t think of any right now,” she says, pausing for a moment. “Nicole Krauss, but she’s married to one of the Jonathans.”For Dovey, then...
...them loved Irving - Roxana had seen the movie of The Cider House Rules but not read the book - and I hope will try out his work soon. All in all, quite a night; when the Rockettes next need a night off, maybe Radio City should give Jonathan Safran Foer and Zadie Smith a call...
...says Ellis, whose latest novel, Lunar Park, came out last summer. "Being the first--and not necessarily the best, just the first--to capture what it feels like to be a member of your generation catapults you forward in a direction that doesn't happen to Jonathan Safran Foer or Zadie Smith. I guess I got lucky, because the way I wrote about us was something that a large number of people connected and agreed with. It wasn't orchestrated. There wasn't a plan...
...literature of multiplicity and diversity, not one of unanimity, and it makes the idea of a unifying voice of a generation seem rather quaint and 20th century. I may love and empathize with the transplanted Bengalis who populate Lahiri's fiction, or Shteyngart's semi-Americanized Russians, or Foer's uprooted Old Worlders or Smith's international extended families. But I would never be so foolish as to mistake any of them for myself...