Nathan Englander talks about his literary political thriller Dinner at the Center of the Earth with his longtime friend Jonathan Safran Foer in an erudite, kind, and high-energy conversation at St. Joseph’s College. Among the topics the two authors touch on are how Englander’s tendency to write in circles reflects the cycles of violence and vengeance in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, the conflict between devotion to people and devotion to ideals, and how the hope for peace may be as unlikely and as possible as putting a man on the moon.
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