Patrick Brown asked Jonathan Safran Foer:

Eating Animals is an expressly political book (and obviously a work of nonfiction). Do you think of your novels as being political in any way or is that strictly the domain of nonfiction for you?

Jonathan Safran Foer There is a difference between being "political" and advancing a political argument. HERE I AM is overflowing with arguments, but doesn't have an argument to make. So there is undeniably a sense in which it is political—it overflows with politics. (It seems that anything that in any way involves Israel involves politics.) But unlike EATING ANIMALS, which as you say is "expressly political"—I was making a case against factory farming—this novel presents a chorus of perspectives and voices, not holding one above others, but creating an argumentative environment.

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