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...
by WILL | Sep 22, 2022 | Novel
Books are written in solitude, but writers do some of their finest work with crowds—in public talks, interviews, and events. The best moments from those strange, dramatic interactions often go missing, however: either they’re never recorded, or nobody will ever find...
by WILL | Sep 26, 2021 | Novel
The pastor’s family at the heart of Franzen’s sixth novel – a bravura examination of the mores of liberal America in 1971 – are his most sympathetic creation to date The characters in Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel exist in that much-disputed no man’s land between hip...
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