Art or not Art?

To say that theater day was a performance is a huge over statement. Jonathan Safran Foer isn’t an actor, so although he was on stage, he was not putting on a show for us Macaulay kids. Foer’s actions and style of speaking was directly related to the style in which he wrote the book. It seemed Foer was talking in run on sentences and unrelated thoughts. This style of writing was perfect though for the narrator of the book. Because I don’t consider Foer’s appearance as a performance, it makes sense that I don’t consider it art. To me, art is countless hours of devotion. So yes, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close can be considered a work of art, but not Foer’s Q and A session.