It’s the rare writer who can blend memoir and The Jungle. But Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the novels Everything Is 
Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, pulls it off in his investigation of factory farming, Eating Animals. On the brink of parenthood, Foer confronts his own selective vegetarianism, offers a modest proposal (“Let them eat dog!”), and sneaks into a turkey farm looking for answers. He’s one of our top picks for Fall Arts, and he’s at Town Hall tonight at 7:30. Tickets are $5 on brownpapertickets.com.