Review: A new collection of essays by Jonathan Franzen.
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.”.
Jonathan Franzen: A Voyage to the End of the World Taking a luxury liner full of tourists to see Antarctica’s dazzling beauty and rare penguins—before climate change destroys them. By Jonathan.
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From his quizzical essays on the fate of fiction to anecdotes casting him as a blindfolded novelist quivering before the blank page, Jonathan Franzen is better-suited than most for the role of the model writer. But as evidenced by the uproar that surrounded The Corrections' aborted bid as an Oprah's Book Club tome, the model-writer role is a curse as much as a blessing.
Shelves: essays, environmental-nonfiction, jonathan-franzen I once worked with a grumpy old coot with a lot of opinions, and despite the fact that I generally agreed with him re: environmental horror, the contradictions of capitalism, etc.
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections T he essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.”.
In an essay for the New Yorker, novelist Jonathan Franzen rightly argues that it is extremely unlikely humanity manages to keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius. But Franzen is badly wrong about.
Essays and criticism on Jonathan Franzen - Franzen, Jonathan. Jonathan Franzen 1959- American novelist and essayist. The following entry presents an overview of Franzen's career through 2003.
Jonathan Franzen, (born August 17, 1959, Western Springs, Illinois, U.S.), American novelist and essayist whose sprawling multilayered novels about contemporary America elicited critical acclaim. Franzen grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and later attended Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. After earning a B.A. in 1981, he attended Berlin’s Freie.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of Purity and other novels, most recently The Corrections and Freedom. His works of nonfiction and translation include Farther Away and The Kraus Project, all published by FSG.
Jonathan Franzen is smart and brash, the kind of person you want as your social critic but not as a brother-in-law. Many of the 14 essays in How to Be Alone, by the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Corrections, first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and elsewhere.
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Farther Away: Essays Jonathan Franzen. Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review.
