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- Two weeks before, he finished the final script for Showtime’s adaptation of his fifth novel, “Purity.” He’d had an ambivalent relationship with TV all his life — his opinion on it formed while watching “Married... With Children,” because of, he’s embarrassed to admit, a crush on Christina Applegate. But he’d come around.
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Oct 9, 2021 · TV had made the big novel of social consciousness redundant, Franzen said, and the serious post-modern novelists like Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo were rapidly becoming irrelevant.
As he returns with a new book, Crossroads, John Self examines his contentious appeal. Sometimes it seems like there are two people called Jonathan Franzen: the successful, acclaimed novelist, and ...
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
- Novelist, essayist
- Literary fiction
Apr 29, 2024 · That same year the novel was at the centre of a dispute between American television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, who selected it for her widely popular book club, and Franzen, who dismissed her previous selections as unsophisticated.
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Oct 7, 2021 · 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 century has been centered on expanding the borders and peripheries of what constitutes the national ...
Aug 25, 2021 · Franzen, Lethem, Safran Foer: white American men hewing to a midcentury model of novelist as public intellectual. Jonathan Ames, despite being named Jonathan, is not a Jonathan. But Michael Chabon ...
May 27, 2015 · The reason, in Franzen’s view, is that at least initially a writer’s subjects are what he called “the easy stuff”. But the longer one writes, the more one wants to drill down into harder ...
