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 »

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 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.

Alex Merto, Charlotte Strick, and Jonathan Franzen on a New Look for Old Books

Jonathan Franzen talks with Wyatt Mason in December 2021 as part of the Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series at 92Y

Franzen and Theresa Rebeck discuss the meaning and madness of literature in an all but hopeless world.

"The novelist on his deliberate evolution away from literary formalism and 'po-mo hijinks'"

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.

In Crossroads, bad decisions and bad faith weigh down the characters - and propel the novel to startling heights.