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Hace 4 días · Jonathan Franzen, American novelist and essayist whose sprawling multilayered novels about contemporary America elicited critical acclaim. His notable books included The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010), and Purity (2015). Learn more about Franzen’s life and work.
Hace 2 días · The desire for freedom, in Franzen’s view, is nothing other than an adolescent urge for irresponsibility and unconnectedness. The novel is full of people whose freedom not only makes them miserable, it makes everyone around them miserable, too.
Hace 4 días · Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous.
Hace 2 días · Then there’s the kind of middlebrow that is typified by Jonathan Franzen (much as I’m sure he’d hate my saying so) or the films of Bong Joon-ho, in which the two modes are intricately braided, so the ideas move the story forwards while the story and its characters flesh out the ideas. Jaws is the former kind of middlebrow. Benchley doesn ...
Hace 2 días · The paragraph continues, growing more deliciously perverted—the kids don’t want the old frogs, “it was the slim young green ones, the juicy adolescents, that we were after.” ... is a blurb by novelist Jonathan Franzen—another writer who attracts the label, whose opinions on fiction I then took as articles of faith. “Alice Munro has ...
Hace 3 días · Featuring a memorably messy family and the multifaceted marriage at its heart, Lombardo’s debut was dubbed “the literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler” (The Guardian) and hailed as “ambitious and brilliantly written” (Washington Post). In this remarkable follow-up—another elegant and tumultuous story in the tradition ...
Hace 2 días · Jonathan Roumie is a devout Catholic actor best known for his role as Jesus in the hit series “The Chosen.” The 49-year-old’s popularity has spread like wildfire as the show has over 500 million views worldwide.
