"Eating Animals" is not free tonight, Sep 20

So everyone liked the book Everything is Illuminated and then they didn't, but whatever. I liked it. I still haven't gotten around to reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close or Eating Animals. The negative reviews always smelled a little of jealously to me--Jonathan Safran Foer is 33, very talented, and had the fortune to be taken under the wing of Joyce Carol Oates as an undergrad. I probably won't pay $5 to go see him, but I doubt I'd regret it if I did. Here's the facts from the Town Hall Calendar: Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘Eating Animals’

Monday, September 20, 2010 | 7:30 – 9pm Location: Town Hall 1119 8th Ave Seattle, WA 98101-2738 (206) 652-4255 Great Hall, enter on 8th Avenue Jonathan Safran Foer—the acclaimed author of Everything Is Illuminated; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; and a new worker of non-fiction, Eating Animals—spent his youth oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood, and facing the prospect of making dietary choices on a child’s behalf, his casual questioning became more urgent; Foer ended up visiting factory farms in the middle of the night, dissecting the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probing some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Presented by Town Hall with University Book Store. Tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating. Late seating not guaranteed. LEARN MORE: eatinganimals.com Read actress Natalie Portman’s Huffington Post article "‘Eating Animals’ Turned Me Vegan" Watch Foer on The Colbert Report