Sixth & I -- Jonathan Safran Foer ("Here I Am") w/Jeffrey Goldberg -- Pre-Event Reception:
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Description of Pictures: Jonathan Safran Foer, In Conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg
In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.”
How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Foer’s first novel in eleven years—a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.
Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks, in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home and the fundamental question of how much life one can bear.
Foer is the author of two bestselling, award-winning novels, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a bestselling work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. Fun fact: his mom is the Director of Sixth & I! In conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s National Correspondent. Book signing to follow.
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2016_DC_FoerR_160912: Sixth & I -- Jonathan Safran Foer ("Here I Am") w/Jeffrey Goldberg -- Pre-Event Reception (86 photos from 2016)
2016_DC_Foer_160912: Sixth & I -- Jonathan Safran Foer ("Here I Am") w/Jeffrey Goldberg -- Presentation (107 photos from 2016)
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FOER1_160912_004.JPG: David ???, Amelia Kemler, ???, ???, ???, Jackie Leventhal, and Carla ???
FOER1_160912_032.JPG: ???, Robin Farber
FOER1_160912_044.JPG: Esther's mother ??? and Esther Foer
FOER1_160912_061.JPG: Esther Foer, ???, and Heather Moran
FOER1_160912_069.JPG: ???, Jonathan Safran Foer
FOER1_160912_082.JPG: Heather Koslov and ???
FOER1_160912_086.JPG: Franklin Foer, ???, and ???
FOER1_160912_098.JPG: Jonathan Safran Foer and Bert Foer
FOER1_160912_103.JPG: Jonathan Safran Foer, ???, and Bert Foer
FOER1_160912_200.JPG: Franklin Foer and Mark LaFramboise
FOER1_160912_226.JPG: Franklin Foer, daughter, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jeffrey Goldberg
FOER1_160912_231.JPG: Franklin Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer, daughter, Jeffrey Goldberg, Esther Foer, and Bert Foer
FOER1_160912_246.JPG: Liz Hottel, Heather Moran, and Mark LaFramboise
[This was the first meeting of the main Politics and Prose folks with the new executive director.]
FOER1_160912_252.JPG: Suzy Stone and Franklin Foer
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2013_DC_Desbois_130408 Sixth & I -- Father Patrick Desbois ("The Holocaust by Bullets") w/Jonathan Safran Foer
2012_DC_Haggadah_120319 Sixth & I -- Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander ("New American Haggadah")
2009_DC_Foer_091201 Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Jonathan Safran Foer ("Eating Animals")
Goldberg, Jeffrey appears on:
2018_DC_Albright_180416 Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Madeleine Albright ("Fascism: A Warning") w/Jeffrey Goldberg
2016_DC_Foer_160912 Sixth & I -- Jonathan Safran Foer ("Here I Am") w/Jeffrey Goldberg -- Presentation
2014_DC_Reparations_140612 Sixth & I and The Atlantic -- Ta-Nehisi Coates ("The Case for Reparations") w/Jeffrey Goldberg
2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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