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Jonathan Safran Foer in Beverly Hills tonight

By Carolyn Kellogg
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What can you expect from Jonathan Safran Foer’s event in the Los Angeles area tonight? Something like his appearance on ‘The Colbert Report,’ maybe, but without Stephen Colbert asking, ‘So you think you can improve on Moses?’

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Instead, it will be the L.A. Times’ David L. Ulin asking Foer about ‘The New American Haggadah.’ That’s the book that tells the story of Passover, which Foer has edited in a new edition, translated by novelist Nathan Englander. It includes essays and commentary by Jeffrey Goldberg and Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel Handler) and other contemporary Jewish American writers.

Presented by Writers Bloc, the event will be held at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Tickets are $20.

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-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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