Jonathan Safran Foer

Mm

... and we got Jonathan Safran Foer, and Barbara Kingsolver, and all we did was had them read and engage in conversations.

We didn't actually give any lectures.

We just found the material.

Oh.

And Jonathan Safran, Jonathan Safran Foer's book was really good [laughs] talking about dairy, and I said, "Okay, I'm not gonna eat dairy." But what about the great source of calcium for people worried about osteoporosis? What about it is a good source of protein? What about it might be better than the other option that they have instead of what? Or you could be against dairy.

You could say, oh, the schools in the US only allow low-fat dairy.

That should be a question that we should pursue.

Mm-hmm.

In the 2011 film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which was based on Jonathan Safran Foer's typographically experimental 2005 novel, Hanks has a relatively small physical part, but it casts a massive shadow over the whole film.

Right.

He plays Thomas Schell, the father who dies in the World Trade Center on September 11.