4.05.2010

Who Would Give a Child Gunpowder?

Jonathan Safran Foer is a young author known for his books "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." Both are awesome books, and he apparently has one more that came out last year, but that's not my topic here.

I just read an abridged article in "The Week" that JSF wrote about an accident he was in when he was 8 years old. I was intrigued, so I looked up the original article with the Washington Post from 2 years ago. The accident was in the news in 1985, and I realized some of the original reports are likely lurking around on the internet somewhere, so I found this. Because of my morbid curiosity with things of this nature (like the TruTV Crime Library), I probed further and found this.

I suppose that once I find something that is interesting to me, I binge on all the related information that I can find. It's interesting for me to read different accounts of the same event written from very different perspectives and for very different reasons... The Original Washington Post article is definitely worth a read, at the very least.
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