Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Resources
Websites
While we wait for "Four by Foer" you can get his two novels in one volume to tide you over.
Get a look at the UK cover featuring a boy and some birds (no penguins).
Movie or TV Productions
The official website for the 2011 film, starring newcomer Thomas Horn as Oskar, Tom Hanks as Dad, and Sandra Bullock as Mom. (What, no Meg Ryan?)
In case you couldn't tell by that headline, the Rotten Tomatoes consensus on the film wasn't exactly incredibly glowing.
Articles and Interviews
The Morning News interviewed Jonathan Safran Foer in 2005, letting us know that we had been pronouncing his name wrong for years.
Isn't it appropriate that a magazine named Guernica interviewed the man who wrote a book about 9/11?
The official press release is an information cornucopia and an interview all in one.
Foer suggests some smart readers might find more in his book than he intended. Are you up to the challenge?
Videos
Foer puts his book into his own words… again… in this brief interview.
JSF says that he used to read books based on their cover. Would you have picked EL&IC based on cover alone?
Everyone loves Everything is Illuminated. In this video, JSF tries to get people to love Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, too.
Audio
David Edelstein is extremely loud when he says the movie is "incredibly manipulative."
Alan Cheuse also calls Jonathan Safran Foer a Boy Wonder. Does this mean he'll be in the next Batman movie?
Images
Not from NYC? Here's how to navigate the five boroughs like Oskar.
Here's the view from the Empire State Building's Observation deck.