Mark Oppenheimer

By Mark Oppenheimer

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  A Young Novelist Takes On 9/11

  One of the pleasures of reading “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” Jonathan Safran Foer’s absorbing new novel, is that the experience helped me understand why I was so incapable of enjoying Foer’s first book, the into-30-languages-translated, into-major-motion-picture-being-made “Everything Is Illuminated” — or why (to take the blame off myself) that last book, published in 2002,…

  By Mark Oppenheimer Apr 1, 2005 | 5 min read
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  Honoring the Hustlers of the Record Business

  Machers and Rockers: Chess Records And the Business of Rock & Roll By Rich Cohen W.W. Norton, 220 pages, $22.95. * * *| I admire Rich Cohen’s writing, but I also admire his project. Cohen’s proj- ect, in all his books, is to talk about Jews neither poor nor rich. These Jews, they got out…

  By Mark Oppenheimer Dec 31, 2004 | 4 min read