by Jonathan Franzen | Mar 17, 2022 | Novel
Alex Merto, Charlotte Strick, and Jonathan Franzen on a New Look for Old Books Last year not only marked the twentieth publication anniversary of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, it also saw the release of his first novel in seven years, Crossroads. So it was only...
by Jonathan Franzen | Oct 7, 2021 | Novel
Jonathan Franzen Is Battle- Ready for the End of the World “I grew up in the middle of the country in the middle of the golden age of the American middle class,” Jonathan Franzen wrote in a 2006 autobiographical essay. While so much cultural pioneering of this new...
by Jonathan Franzen | Oct 4, 2021 | Novel
The novelist discusses religion, the ethics of writing characters of a different race, and his deliberate evolution away from literary formalism and “po-mo hijinks.” Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel, “Crossroads,” is set in 1971, and the title is firmly on the nose: the...
by Jonathan Franzen | Oct 4, 2021 | Novel
Jonathan Franzen’s Best Book Yet At last he’s put aside the pyrotechnics and gone all in on his great theme: the American family. “Jonathan franzen writes big books about small lives. This may sound like a curious characterization of a writer who has sweated to...
by Jonathan Franzen | Sep 27, 2021 | Novel
In “Crossroads,” bad decisions and bad faith weigh down the characters—and propel the novel to startling heights. A rabbi, a preacher, and a drug dealer walk into a Christmas party. This is not the setup to a joke; it is the setup to a pivotal scene in “Crossroads,”...
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