"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." -Kafka
Friday, May 20, 2011
Welcome!
Hello Symposium Students! Welcome to the Jonathan Safran Foer blog, a venue for you to comment on, question, and engage with JSF's writing and each other. This blog will be active during the summer and the first semester, and I hope you embrace the opportunities for illumination that it offers. I expect you to follow the blog and post to it regularly as you read and think about connections between texts and larger connections to your worlds outside the classroom. Since there are two Symposium sections this year, engaging in conversation on the blog will connect us all more closely. Your contribution to this blog will help tear down the boundaries of typical classroom learning and will hopefully make our ongoing conversation extremely loud and incredibly close...
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