Cut it out, Foer

Apparently, superstar novelist Jonathan Safran Foer did not “write” his newest book, but is instead carving a new book out of an already existing book. Good Design Daily reports:

To create what Fast Company describes as "an interactive paper sculpture," Foer enlisted the help of the Belgian designer Sara de Bondt and a team from Die Keure, who used the "die-cutting" technique to physically alter the pages of Foer's favorite book, Bruno Schulz's Street of Crocodiles…By cutting out words and lines of text from that book, Foer and his team managed to create an entirely new story.

As with our previous post on William Gibson’s Agrippe, we must ask: how come novelists are outdoing poets with the whole erasure thing?