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 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 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...
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