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Do you like book readings but wish they were louder and perhaps featured more music, alcohol, and cigarette smoke? Well, tonight The Stranger and Chop Suey will make your dreams come true, as they host what has to be the best (and free-est) author reading/dance party ever, with Jonathan Safran Foer reading from his new novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Like his previous book, Everything is Illuminated, the story is told from the viewpoint of a remarkably precocious young man. This time it's nine-year-old Oskar Schell, a renaissance boy dealing with his father's death in the 9/11 attacks. The book is a heartfelt, inventive, empathetic, literally colorful, and funny piece of work, which has been fairly well received, even by that curmudgeon John Updike. more ›