Tag Archives: Jonathan Safran Foer

Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

I came to this book through Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes, which is an excised novel of Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles. Foer explains at the end of his book that he had always wanted to create an excised … Continue reading →

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When is a book a book…

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

In an attempt to expand my students’ thinking about books and writing, every Monday (so far there have been only three) I bring in a book which pushes the notion and structure of what is a book. We spend a … Continue reading →

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