Jonathan Safran Foer is teaching creative writing at New York University this semester. Friends say he is humble, innovative, caring and shy.
'Extremely shy' and 'incredibly bold' —
Jonathan Safran Foer is teaching creative writing at New York University this semester. Friends say he is humble, innovative, caring and shy.
Foer's friend Sam Messer, who teaches at Yale University, made this clay model of the novelist's head.
'Extremely shy' and 'incredibly bold' —
Foer's friend Sam Messer, who teaches at Yale University, made this clay model of the novelist's head.
Foer and Messer have collaborated on several collages.
'Extremely shy' and 'incredibly bold' —
Foer and Messer have collaborated on several collages.
Foer did free-association writing on top of a portrait Messer drew of him. "He's always more curious about what he's not doing than what he's doing," says Messer.
'Extremely shy' and 'incredibly bold' —
Foer did free-association writing on top of a portrait Messer drew of him. "He's always more curious about what he's not doing than what he's doing," says Messer.
It's Foer's energy that makes him a subject that Messer wants to capture artistically.
'Extremely shy' and 'incredibly bold' —
It's Foer's energy that makes him a subject that Messer wants to capture artistically.
Foer's visual sensibility is part of what makes him a unique writer, Messer says.
'Extremely shy' and 'incredibly bold' —
Foer's visual sensibility is part of what makes him a unique writer, Messer says.