What: Jodi Kantor, author of the highly anticipated book The Obamas, just published by Little Brown, interviewed by fellow CBE member Jonathan Safran Foer
Where: CBE
When: Thursday, February 2, 7:30 p.m.
Cost: Free! (But we ask that you RSVP)
RSVP: Lauren Shenkman, (718) 768-3814 ext. 242, lshenkman@cbebk.org

Books will be sold by our friends at the Community Bookstore at the event. The Community Bookstore will donate 10% of all sales made that night to CBE!

About the book (from the Hachette Book Group site): “When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible.

“Then they moved in.

“In The Obamas, Jodi Kantor takes us deep inside the White House as they try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the first black President and First Lady. Filled with riveting detail and insight into their partnership, emotions and personalities, and written with a keen eye for the ironies of public life, The Obamas is an intimate portrait that will surprise even readers who thought they knew the President and First Lady.”

Jodi Kantor, © Juliana Sohn

About the author (from the Hachette Book Group site): “Jodi Kantor began her journalism career by dropping out of Harvard Law School to join Slate.com in 1998. Four years later, she became the Arts & Leisure editor of the New York Times. She has been covering the Obamas since 2007, and though she is a Washington correspondent for the newspaper, she lives in Brooklyn with her family. She can be followed at twitter.com/jodikantor.”

Jonathan Safran Foer, © Gianluca Gentilini

Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most acclaimed young writers of his generation, a “certified wunderkind” (Time) whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. He has earned a National Jewish Book Award, a Guardian First Book Award, and remarkable praise for his first two novels, Everything Is Illuminated (adapted for film in 2005) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (soon to be a major motion picture directed by Stephen Daldry). His first work of nonfiction, Eating Animals, published in 2009 and his New American Haggadah, with a translation by Nathan Englander, will publish in March, 2011.