Article: John Updike maybe "an old fart" but Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer are bringing fresh life to the novel. (The Writers).(Interview)

The debut novels of Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss were two of the most impressive books of 2002. His was Everything Is illuminated, a startling innovative tale about a grammar-managing Ukrainian tour guide, a wannabe novelist, a shtetl, and ... well, you kind of have to read it. Hers was Man Walks into a Room, a poetic book about an English professor with amnesia. (Krauss also wrote the short story "Future Emergencies" in last month's Esquire.) Both books gave us hope or the future of fiction. Both authors are absurdly young (he's twenty-five, she's twenty-eight). Here, the two close friends talk to Esquire.

Esquire started the interview by quoting John ...

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