by WILL | Dec 16, 2025 | Events
JOIN THE NEWBERRY IN HONORING JONATHAN FRANZEN FOR HIS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HUMANITIES. The Newberry Library Award is presented annually to recognize extraordinary achievements in the humanities, honoring work that exemplifies the intellectual tradition...
by WILL | Dec 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential novelists alive today. He sees fiction as the most fundamental human art, and in this conversation he explains how he actually makes it: the discipline, the daily grind, and the psychological spelunking required to write...
by WILL | Nov 26, 2024 | Novel
To finish The Corrections, he had to kill his protagonist— and his idea of what a book should be. “Here it is: Description of a Struggle.” Jonathan Franzen hands me a journal he’s found in a bin, a record of his day-to-day entries from the summer of 1998. We are...
by WILL | Sep 5, 2024 | Events
The New Yorker contributors Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, and Rivka Galchen discuss their work as fiction writers and journalists. Moderated by Deborah Treisman. Friday, Oct. 25th | 6 – 7:15 P.M. | SVA Theatre READ MORE AT THE NEW...
by WILL | Dec 25, 2023 | Birds, Environment, Journalism
By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies have troubling consequences for city residents, local wildlife—and even the cats themselves. “This past June, at the height of kitten season in Los Angeles, Gail Raff got a call for help from the...
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