Jonathan Franzen Featured at the 2026 Aspen Words Book Ball
The Aspen Times previews Jonathan Franzen’s appearance at the 2026 Aspen Words Book Ball. Franzen will join book critic Ron Charles for a conversation on July 10 at the Aspen Meadows Resort. The annual benefit supports Aspen Words programs, including the Aspen Literary Festival, literary programming for local students, scholarships for emerging writers, and other accessible community events. Franzen received the 2001 Read More »
“A Talent for Seeming” in The New Yorker
Jonathan Franzen’s new short story, “A Talent for Seeming,” is now available in The New Yorker. Set in Butte, Montana, the story follows Adele, a devout teen-ager whose encounter with an unconventional English teacher awakens a consuming passion for theatre—and a talent that begins to transform her life. The story is adapted from Franzen’s novel in progress, a sequel to Crossroads. In Read More »
Meryl Streep to Star in Netflix Adaptation of The Corrections
Netflix has announced a limited-series adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s National Book Award–winning novel The Corrections. Meryl Streep will star as Enid Lambert in the series, which will be directed by Academy Award winner Cord Jefferson. Franzen is writing and adapting the novel for the screen and will serve as an executive producer alongside Streep, Jefferson, Mark Roybal, Paul Lee, and Nicole Clemens. Read More »
The Newberry Honors Jonathan Franzen
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 the Newberry has cultivated since its founding in 1887. This annual award celebrates those who foster curiosity, creativity and public understanding of the humanities. Past recipients reflect Read More »
Jonathan Franzen on How I Write with David Perell
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 characters who feel startlingly alive. Franzen has always had an outsider’s eye. He questioned the hype of the Internet Read More »
How Jonathan Franzen Learned to Write a Franzen 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 in a storage annex next to his office, which is Spartan. There’s a small desk, Read More »
Jonathan Franzen at The New Yorker Festival 10/25/24
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 YORKER
How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name
By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies have troubling consequences for city residents, local wildlife—and even the cats themselves.
TOMORROW TALKS WITH JONATHAN FRANZEN: CROSSROADS
Arizona State University welcomed celebrated novelist Jonathan Franzen as a guest in its TomorrowTalks series. Franzen discussed his book, "Crossroads" in an online event. The conversation was facilitated by ASU fiction writer Matt Bell, a professor of English and author of the cli-fi novel, “Appleseed.”
Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?
Jonathan Franzen tells Adam Colman in this episode of the Writers Institute Podcast, “If we lose live book events, I would experience it as a great loss.” He describes here the humor, community, and conversation at those gatherings.
