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How to Be AloneJonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Now in How to be Alone, discover the personal narratives...Read More -
The CorrectionsThe Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -- a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy...Read More
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Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2010
...departure last year to return to writing. As an editor, Stein has a noteworthy lineup of authors, including Jonathan Franzen, Denis Johnson, Lydia Davis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sam Lipsyte and Richard Price. Books he's edited have received the National Book...
Taipei Times Online, February 7, 2010
...John Sargent had issued a memo saying a resolution was probably near. Macmillan’s authors include Janet Evanovich, Jonathan Franzen, Barbara Ehrenreich and its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St Martin’s Press and Henry Holt Co. Under...
Yahoo! News Australia, February 6, 2010
...John Sargent had issued a memo saying a resolution was probably near. Macmillan's authors include Janet Evanovich, Jonathan Franzen, Barbara Ehrenreich and its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St Martin's Press and Henry Holt & Co.Under...
San Francisco Examiner, February 6, 2010
...John Sargent had issued a memo saying a resolution was probably near. Macmillan's authors include Janet Evanovich, Jonathan Franzen, Barbara Ehrenreich and its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's Press and Henry Holt & Co. Under...
Contra Costa Times, February 6, 2010
...John Sargent had issued a memo saying a resolution was probably near. Macmillan's authors include Janet Evanovich, Jonathan Franzen, Barbara Ehrenreich and its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's Press and Henry Holt & Co. Under...
Dayton Daily News, February 5, 2010
...John Sargent had issued a memo saying a resolution was probably near. Macmillan's authors include Janet Evanovich, Jonathan Franzen, Barbara Ehrenreich and its imprints include Farrar, Straus&Giroux, St. Martin's Press and Henry Holt&Co. Under...
DCExaminer.com, February 4, 2010
...electronic editions of Young's best-seller about former presidential candidate John Edwards and of works by Barbara Ehrenreich, Jonathan Franzen and other Macmillan authors...
KansasCity.com, February 4, 2010
...electronic editions of Young's best-seller about former presidential candidate John Edwards and of works by Barbara Ehrenreich, Jonathan Franzen and other Macmillan authors...
Times Online, January 14, 2010
...El Amin Habbiballa, Kristoffer Famm, Andrew Feinstein, William Fiennes, Anne Flotaker, Aminatta Forna, Cynthia , Fortune- Rainey, Ernesto Franco, Jonathan Franzen, Maureen Freely, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Marrianne Gimon, Misha Glenny, Francisco...
Bradenton Herald, January 14, 2010
...it, read all I can, do my homework. But that's the same as for any novelist. When Jonathan Franzen was writing 'The Corrections,' for example, he probably had to do a lot of research about Lithuania.' But there's a point, she says, when the writer steps...
Crave Online, January 6, 2010
...into flying werewolves and spends the rest of the book chasing dreams through the sky. If you meet Jonathan Franzen at a party, don’t talk to him about that part; he’s far too reclusive. The Lovely Bones—Alice Sebold Sebold’s novel is written...
Washington Post, January 5, 2010
...good people and crime sometimes does pay. "The Privileges" will inevitably be compared to "The Corrections," but Jonathan Franzen's novel is more ambitious and, finally, more successful, taking on as it does the complex dynamic of a family and its...
EyeWeekly.com, January 4, 2010
...channel, some room has opened up for new blood in the dog-eat-dog world of literary book clubs. Excluding Jonathan Franzen, we’ve all learned a lot from Oprah over the years, with perhaps the most compelling lesson being that a book is best judged by...
PBS, December 31, 2009
...Books in the aughts were not all for naught: There were mega novels (like Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and Junot Diaz's 'The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'), a boom in book clubs, and the birth of the e-reader. Joining me to discuss...
BusinessWeek, December 31, 2009
...OTHERS TO WATCH: Heres a list of books suggested by the American Library Associations Booklist Magazine. Adult Fiction: Jonathan Franzen. Freedom (Farrar) David Foster Wallace. The Pale King (Little, Brown) Scott Turow. Innocent. (Grand Central...
Time Out New York, December 28, 2009
...he’s had to watch fellow young, white, male, American novelists go on to National Book Award glory (Jonathan Franzen), not to mention watch younger, white, male, American novelists (Joshua Ferris) soar on to media adoration. Yet the fact remains that...
The Independent, December 21, 2009
...notes and files. This technological thriller is expected to be finished and released by HarperCollins in fall 2010. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' 2010 (tentative) International Jonathan Franzen's fourth novel is tentatively scheduled for 2010 release. The...
Guardian.co.uk, December 18, 2009
...by Sebastian Barry (Faber) Unless, by Carol Shields (4th Estate) Atonement by Ian McEwan (Vintage) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Harper Perennial) Runaway by Alice Munro (Vintage) Non-fiction Bad Blood, by Lorna Sage (Harper Perennial) The...
Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2009
...of course, perhaps the eternal subject of all domestic fiction -- from John Cheever to Rick Moody to Jonathan Franzen -- but Sherman's take on it proves particularly grim. There is, it's worth noting, another living room in the novel: the one in Abby's...
Sydney Morning Herald, December 4, 2009
...of two great native poets of Canada, and it made Number four, soundly beating such celebrated works as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (Number 19) or one of my favourites, Yann Martel's Life of Pi (Number seven). Just to confuse us, The Da Vinci Code...
Salina Journal, November 21, 2009
...s lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey, while DeGeneres herself came out as gay, 1997. n Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including 'schmaltzy' works after she picks his novel 'The Corrections,' and he loses his...
Springfield News-Leader, November 21, 2009
..."Ellen," the star character confides that she's lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey. - Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including "schmaltzy" works and he loses his invitation to be on the show, 2001. - Winfrey...
San Francisco Chronicle, November 20, 2009
...a purer, more seamless form of talking and being is understandable," he writes. Emerson, Nicholson Baker and Jonathan Franzen are among the writers deftly invoked to support this gracefully haunting view. "Tyranny" closes with a measured plea for...
The Scotsman, November 20, 2009
...she's lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey, while DeGeneres herself came out as gay, 1997. Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including 'schmaltzy' works after she picks his novel The Corrections and he loses his...
WTXX-TV, November 20, 2009
...s lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey, while DeGeneres herself came out as gay, 1997. — Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including 'schmaltzy' works after she picks his novel 'The Corrections,' and he loses his...
News24.com, November 20, 2009
...s lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey, while DeGeneres herself came out as gay, 1997.- Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including "schmaltzy" works after she picks his novel The Corrections, and he loses his...
News 1130, November 20, 2009
...she's lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey. while DeGeneres herself came out as gay. 1997. -Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including 'schmaltzy' works after she picks his novel 'The Corrections.' and he loses his...
Pantagraph.com, November 20, 2009
...to the publishing industry and vaulting her choices to the best-seller list and instant fame, 1996. _ Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including 'schmaltzy' works after she picks his novel 'The Corrections,' and he...
The Independent, November 16, 2009
...to help advance the careers of both established and emerging writers. Recent winners in fiction include Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen, and Lily Tuck. On Friday, November 20, the winner of the 2009 Premio Miguel de Cervantes will be announced in...
Aroundphilly.com, November 12, 2009
...a Mockingbird, and Catcher in the Rye. I also love writers like David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, and Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections—people who break boundaries and force you to see world in a different way. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men...
Herald Scotland, November 4, 2009
...faintly ridiculous project, “the Great American Novel”, echoes of which can be seen in everything from Hemingway to Jonathan Franzen. “I don’t know if I even consider myself a novelist. I’m telling stories. A lot of writers’ ambition is to...
National Post, October 24, 2009
...vigorous and have something to say. Although I haven’t read the fiction of two recent American novelists, Jonathan Franzen and the late , I’m predisposed toward them after reading their superb essay collections — Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone and...
Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2009
...the millennium (so far) . They've been teasing out the top 20 all week, and today announced that Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" is No.1. It's an interesting pick. In 2001, Franzen created a stir by expressing mixed feelings about his novel being...
Paste Magazine, September 21, 2009
...Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Echo Maker by Richard...
Momlogic, September 18, 2009
...Toni Morrison Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen Cane River, by Lalita Tademy Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, by Malika Oufkir Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio We...
Suite101.com, August 23, 2009
...Fiction » Modern American Fiction » Franzen's Novel Holds Up © Colin Miner Rereading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen )recently, it is hard not to recognize why the book received as much acclaim as it did. Family as Refuge The Corrections (Picador...
Oprah.com, August 17, 2009
...Photo: Tony Barson/WireImage.com The star of Mad Men (and a self-professed science guy) is happy to log off YouTube and delve into a primer on string theory, a play about the history of physics, or a novel by one of his generation's finest writers. I...
Toronto Star Online, August 16, 2009
...English-speaking literary world has produced several outstanding examples of this type of novel within the past decade, including Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, Zadie Smith's On Beauty and Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children. All were by writers...
Blogcritics.org, August 11, 2009
...out (to cite just a few examples of an almost universal them) Jonathan Lethem?s Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Franzen?s The Corrections, Marisha Pessl?s Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marilynne Robinson?s Housekeeping, Arundhati Roy?s The...
New York Times, August 8, 2009
...leaders shocking public pronouncements the Ayatollah Khomeinis 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and Oprah Winfreys 2001 endorsement of Jonathan Franzen. But irony of ironies, after literature was evicted from mass culture, pop culture itself began to...
UNIAN, August 7, 2009
...Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 1999 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 2000 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2001 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2002 Atonement Ian McEwan 2003 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2004 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst...
The Times South Africa, July 25, 2009
...Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Kate Grenville. Between Cape winter gales and floods, Edna O?Brien and Jeffrey Eugenides. Jonathan Franzen and Petina Gappah have read stories to me. I?ve eavesdropped on Malcolm Gladwell discussing IQ, and considered an...
NPR, July 20, 2009
...by Kurt Vonnegut by Charles Frazier by Olive Ann Burns by Susan Isaacs by John Kennedy Toole by Jonathan Franzen by Alexandre Dumas by Neal Stephenson by Charlaine Harris by Robertson Davies by Walter Mosely by Anne Tyler by J.M. Coetzee by Rupert...
Observer, July 20, 2009
...degree of disappointment when a novel has been blurbed hysterically by such an esteemed list of fellow authors (Jonathan Franzen, Gary Shteyngart, Zadie Smith), but it is a relentless, clever, sordid novel about what lies at the heart of most...
National Post, July 18, 2009
...in the history of blurbdom: the back of his novel boasts plaudits from the likes of Sam Lipsyte, Jonathan Franzen, Benjamin Kunkel, Zadie Smith, and Gary Shteyngart. ?Publishers are like jewelers: they know the importance of packaging. This book,...
Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2009
...out of the canon . Its victims are books by Don Delillo, Charles Dickens, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Jonathan Franzen, D.H. Lawrence, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy and Virginia Woolf. And Jack Kerouac. On the one hand, some of the...
Schenectady Daily Gazette, July 10, 2009
...Chabon 3. ?White Teeth? by Zadie Smith 4. ?Life of Pi? by Yann Martel 5. ?The Corrections? by Jonathan Franzen These are good books and all, but I just don?t love them. But I?m clearly in the minority, because everybody else does. Got a...
Christian Science Monitor, June 21, 2009
...a scoop: Jane Austen is alive. Whats more shocking, the grandmother of social satire has moved in with Jonathan Franzen, and the two of them have produced a love child called The Hills at Home. How else to explain this allegedly debut novel from an...
Christian Science Monitor, June 15, 2009
...Known World,? by Edward P. Jones, which has claimed 11 major awards since 1995. Second place goes to Jonathan Franzen?s magnificent ?The Corrections,? which won 9 awards, and third place goes to ?Underworld,? by Don DiLillo (DiLillo?s name,...
Buffalo News, May 31, 2009
...well-received by critics. His most famous book is probably John Henry Days, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002. Jonathan Franzen called it funny and wise and sumptuously written. Whitehead has just published his latest novel, Sag Habor, a coming-of-age...
Toronto Star Online, May 28, 2009
...described her as 'our Chekhov'; A.S. Byatt, who compared her to Chekhov, de Maupassant and Flaubert; and Jonathan Franzen, who hailed her as 'the best fiction writer working in North America.' 'The kinds of qualities that readers can see in the writing...
Guardian Unlimited, May 27, 2009
...younger generation of writers has recently joined the cult of Munro: you might expect a relative hipster like Jonathan Franzen, for example, to be more in thrall to the noisier attractions of the Big American Men, but it is Munro he calls 'The Great...
Globe and Mail, May 27, 2009
...Ms. Munro has scores of admirers among contemporary writers, including Cynthia Ozick, who called her our Chekhov, and Jonathan Franzen ( The Corrections ), who wrote in the New York Times that, she has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now...
Globe and Mail, May 26, 2009
...Ms. Munro has scores of admirers among contemporary writers, including Cynthia Ozick, who called her our Chekhov, and Jonathan Franzen ( The Corrections ), who wrote in the New York Times that, she has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now...
Drowned In Sound, May 18, 2009
...Years ago, some of us went to a reading of literary crossover hit, The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen. During the Q&A, this girl we recognized asked what books he (Franzen) was inspired by, and would recommend, pen & notepad at the ready. Franzen?s...
Washington Square News, May 11, 2009
...t part with it, no. It will still be sitting in his back yard, but if Miramax or Jonathan Franzen feel the need to include this rock in their latest blockbuster film or best-selling novel, they will have to pay you. The band Jethro Tull had a song about...
Guardian Unlimited, May 7, 2009
...to achieve.' Always critical of his own work, Foster Wallace struggled to write The Pale King, corresponding with Jonathan Franzen and Don DeLillo about his worries, telling Franzen that in order to complete it he would have to write 'a 5,000 page...
Time, May 5, 2009
...at TIME. As TIME's book critic he has written profiles of Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Jonathan Franzen, John Updike, John le Carré, Stephenie Meyer, Khaled Hosseini and J.K. Rowling, among many others. The New York Times has called him one of...
Telegraph, May 1, 2009
...For years, I didn't think my own world was a legitimate subject for fiction. Then I read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and decided that if he could write about his family in a way that was moving, not mocking, so could I.' The result is The Secret...
Article Dashboard.com, April 11, 2009
...its debut on 1996. A lot of debates nonetheless storm Ophra?s Book Club selection process. Most remarkably Jonathan Franzen?s discontent on Winfrey selecting his novel ?The Corrections? and the altercation on live telecast pertaining to...
The Age, April 9, 2009
...leisure, the silk-curtained boudoir with a good thick carpet, full flower-bowls and a bed on a raised dais'. Jonathan Franzen begins The Corrections by detailing the unremarkable interior of Alfred and Enid Lambert's house in order to show us their...
Christian Science Monitor, April 8, 2009
...author of ?Infinite Jest.? The National includes the story of a striking photo she took of ?Corrections? author Jonathan Franzen. But of course, says book blogger Jessica Crispin, too much can be made of the author photo. It?s certainly...
Suburban Journals, April 1, 2009
...of two neighboring families: The Sellers and the Glovers. The story calls to mind novels of John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, Ian McEwan and Anne Tyler. Hensher's characters reveal facts and fallacies about themselves and each other that make them...
ArticleBliss.com, April 1, 2009
...its debut on 1996. A lot of debates nonetheless storm Ophra?s Book Club selection process. Most remarkably Jonathan Franzen?s discontent on Winfrey selecting his novel ?The Corrections? and the altercation on live telecast pertaining to...
Louisville Courier-Journal, March 30, 2009
...book for FSG, said reading Morgan's book in manuscript reminded him of the way he felt reading Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides for the first time. 'I've been waiting for this since I was seven years old,' said Morgan, a native of Cincinnati. 'I...
Louisville Courier-Journal, March 30, 2009
...book for FSG, said reading Morgan's book in manuscript reminded him of the way he felt reading Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides for the first time. 'I've been waiting for this since I was seven years old,' said Morgan, a native of Cincinnati. 'I...
Georgia Straight, March 13, 2009
...Christian agenda, and that unignorable racist stereotyping. Friends of Narnia may side with compatriots interviewed here, such as Jonathan Franzen, whose kid self found those religious metaphors ?cool?, and Neil Gamain, for whom Narnia was ?an...
A Writer Reads, January 7, 2010
...Burning Bright , the anthology Sympathy for the Devil , Pet Petterson's I Curse the River of Time , and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom...
Printers Row, January 5, 2010
...Dave Egger’s youth literacy programs in seven cities around the country, there are a few obvious highlights: Jonathan Franzen’s moving tribute to David Foster Wallace, or Denis Johnson’s reporting from Iraq. There are beautiful pieces by fresh,...
| Find a Soul For Sale |, January 5, 2010
...by Kazuo Ishiguro 2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2004), by Susanna Clarke 3. The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen 4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), by Junot Diaz 5. The Known World (2003), by Edward P. Jones 6. Harry Potter and...
Steve Goddard's History Wire, January 4, 2010
...love for the Rhode Island Coast." And for good measure, add in the likes of Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, Ja Jin, Sarah Vowell, and William T. Vollmann and many others. A fascinating feature includes 30 tables, ranking states on a number of measures....
Books Worth Reading, January 1, 2010
...the Flood by Margaret Atwood; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz; The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen; Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh; Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill; Just After Sunset by Stephen King; Mystic River by Dennis Lehane; No...
From The Sidelines, December 31, 2009
... J.K. Rowling This Is Where I Leave You , Jonathan Tropper The Ruins , Scott Smith The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen The Historian , Elizabeth Kostova Posted via web from moviegoer's posterous...
SteveMandich.com Blog, December 31, 2009
...by Will Brooker (2000) Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (2000) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001) Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001) Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerad (2002) Word Freak...
Books & Films, December 24, 2009
...but have not yet. Send us a review of one of these. 2000 Susan Sontag In America 2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections 2002 Julia Glass Three Junes 2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire 2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay 2005 William Vollmann Europe...
Corresponding Fractions, December 22, 2009
...This year I got to about 50 percent of the fiction in the New Yorker, same as last year . Here were my top ten favorites, in chronological order: Al Roosten , by George Saunders—a classic Saunders tale of a morally mixed-up fellow Wiggle Room , by...
Conversational Reading, December 15, 2009
...35-year-old woman who escapes from a Soviet Bloc country to West Germany. Originally published in Berlin in 1989. Jonathan Franzen reportedly will finally publish another novel, though I don't really care. And, okay, this does sound fairly bad: ...
Sul Romanzo, December 15, 2009
...Salon Logic made fun: A new comic romps through one of philosophy's greatest debates. The Millions Jonathan Franzen, Honesty and the Lines of Literature. The New Yorker Diary of an Interesting Year. Vietnamnet The literary scandal that rocked the Czech...
Me And My Big Mouth, December 14, 2009
...The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is by Sloan Wilson and this edition has an introduction by Jonathan Franzen...
Restless Reader, December 13, 2009
...American Consensus by Rick Perlstein The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most...
Pursued by a Bear, November 19, 2009
...funky bronze statue, and some serious swagger, given that he now joins the ranks of previous winners like Jonathan Franzen, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, E. Annie Proulx and John Updike. Not bad going. And speaking of awards, John Banville made another...
Reading Matters, November 18, 2009
...Haddon Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Atonement by Ian McEwan The full list is available on The Times website...
the Literary Saloon, November 13, 2009
...of the nine are translated from the English; under review at the complete review are: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Snow by Orhan Pamuk, and After Dark by Murakami Haruki (as well as Stieg Larsson's Millennium-trilogy, starting with The Girl with...
An Ex-expatriate's Musings on Writing, Teaching, a, October 12, 2009
...the other was the "Readers' Choice." Here are the top ten: Panel Readers 1 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 1 The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 2 The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 3 Cloud Atlas by David...
Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent, October 8, 2009
...era. You think they would have published Toni Morrison in the era of Herman Melville? (nope!) What about Jonathan Franzen in the era of Jane Austen? (nope!) Or an openly gay author like David Sedaris in any closeted era? (nope!) Why would previous...
DPL News & Views, October 8, 2009
...#3: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell #2: The Known World by Edward P. Jones #1: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Then they asked website readers the same question and here's their list: Readers' List: 1 The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot...
the Literary Saloon, September 26, 2009
...panel-selections quite a few of the titles are under review at the complete review: 1. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 4. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 8. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 10. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo...
Read Street, September 22, 2009
...a long, cold spell since the 1980s. Too bad for authors such as Alice McDermott, E. Annie Proulx, Jonathan Franzen, Alice Walker and Pete Dexter. Starting this week, you can vote at the foundation's web site. The winner will be announced Nov. 18, and...
the Literary Saloon, September 22, 2009
...it'll figure higher on the list). Among the other titles I'd consider tossing into the mix: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (which I'm sure also made the English-language-heavy list), J.M.Coetzee's Slow Man, and Jean Echenoz's Piano...
Mark Bernstein, September 15, 2009
...less likely to be best-sellers? This goes to the heart of the grand literary argument of the generation. Jonathan Franzen and Ben Marcus have been debating , chiefly in the pages of Harper’s, the value of experimental and realistic fiction. ...
Criticlasm, September 10, 2009
...I was reading How to Be Alone , Jonathan Franzen's book of essays while on the plane back from NM. I was right in the middle of his essay about fiction that he got a lot of flack...
ChicagoNow, September 5, 2009
...sat down to write about the fiasco which occurred a handful of years ago between Oprah Winfrey and Jonathan Franzen, a fiasco in which the author wasn't as over the moon as Oprah would have liked about her endorsement of his book, and was dis-invited...
Pat Session, August 16, 2009
...In his book, How to be Alone, Jonathan Franzen had plenty of shit to say about TV and its evils and its disposability and its backhanded way of taking people’s attention away from the Better Activities, ie...
the Literary Saloon, August 4, 2009
...Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Murakami Haruki 1999 - Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee 2001 - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2002 - Atonement by Ian McEwan...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, June 15, 2009
...Millions , "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones is the most prize-winning novel since 1995. "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen came in second. The blog added up literary prizewinners and nominations, counting two points for every time a novel was...
songs about buildings and food, June 4, 2009
...So I read that new Jonathan Franzen story in the New Yorker today and at first I just hate hate hated it, and this is in part because I hate it when stories start with the...
Bigelow's Rameumptom, May 18, 2009
...Michel Faber 7. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 8. Saturday, Ian McEwan 9. Middlemarch, George Eliot 10. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 11. How We Die, Sherwin Nuland 12. The Stand, Stephen King 13. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood 14. The Autobiography...
Entertainment, May 15, 2009
...imprint of HarperCollins). The others are The Diving Bell And The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. Each has an artist-designed dust...
What Was I Reading?, May 9, 2009
...Morrison (A+) Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier (A-) Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde (A+) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (A) Gatsby's Girl by Caroline Preston (B+) The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (B+) Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (A-)...
It's all about me, April 24, 2009
...March by Geraldine Brooks (2006) National Book Award options: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001) Double-dipper: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx...
Thomas Mahoney, April 20, 2009
...time I read anything that sold more than a few hundred thousand copies. I read the Corrections by Jonathan Franzen which I think did well due to the Oprah debacle, and I read the beginning of A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, which is an absolute...
bibliographing, March 27, 2009
...“The Reader in Exile” by Jonathan Franzen I’ve been flipping through Jonathan Franzen’s collection of essays, How To Be Alone , and I’m really enjoying them. I like Franzen a lot so that’s...
11D, March 16, 2009
...had created some good characters, but the shape of the book evaded him. In 2004, he wrote to Jonathan Franzen that to get the book done he would have to write “a 5,000 page manuscript and then winnow it by 90%, the very idea of which makes something...
Fosco Lives!, March 14, 2009
...Saturday, March 14, 2009 Saturday Story Hour: DF Wallace on Boredom Good Morning. Take a seat in the circle. This is "Saturday Story Hour." Attentive readers may have noticed that Fosco has occasionally taken shots at late author David Foster Wallace ....
