Martha Knows Everything...and You Should, Too

Thursday, March 31, 2005

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED...BUT BY WHAT?

Excellent writer Jonathan Safran Foer believes and doesn't believe, and that's okay with me:

Interviewer: Kafka said that writing is a form of prayer. Does this concept ring true for you?

Foer: It does. But Kafka didn't believe in God, and neither do I. So what did he mean that I'm agreeing with? A prayer, OK, but a prayer to whom?

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I was born in NYC, grew up in Pittsburgh, escaped to Brooklyn, and now live in Hoboken, NJ, with my red-headed husband and my pitbull/beagle. Watch this space My Fat Cat and My Fat Dog, diet and exercise books for pudgy pets. I teach and I write: interactive design, screenwriting (there's a character named after me in a Mel Gibson movie), and fiction (my work's appeared in Best American Erotica three times). mgarveynyc at yahoo dotcom

Name: Martha

I'm a native New Yorker who grew up in Pittsburgh, and now lives in New Jersey, gazing at that fantastic Manhattan skyline every day. I am unreasonably optimistic and welcome e-mail from animal lovers, movie fiends, coffee addicts, and registered voters: mgarveynyc at yahoo dot com.

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