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    Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama...
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  • Freedom is a 2010 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Freedom received general acclaim from book...
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    spoke of opening a shelter for stray canines. According to his friend Jonathan Franzen, he "had a predilection for dogs who'd been abused, and [were] unlikely...
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  • Johan Franzén (politician) (1879–1946), Finnish farmer, bank director and politician John-Erik Franzén (1942–2022), Swedish artist Jonathan Franzen (born...
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  • copies. The club has seen several literary controversies, such as Jonathan Franzen's public dissatisfaction with his novel, The Corrections, having been...
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  • Crossroads (novel) (category Novels by Jonathan Franzen)
    Crossroads: A Novel is the sixth novel by American author Jonathan Franzen, published on October 5, 2021. It is a family saga set during the 1970s and...
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  • Purity is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. His fifth novel, it was published on 1 September 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The novel is...
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  • The Corrections (category Novels by Jonathan Franzen)
    The Corrections is a 2001 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult...
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  • How to Be Alone (book) (category Works by Jonathan Franzen)
    Alone is a 2002 book collecting fourteen essays by American writer Jonathan Franzen. Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's...
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    Earth" by David Wallace-Wells and "What if we stopped pretending?" by Jonathan Franzen, which were both criticized for scientific inaccuracy. Climate change...
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    their love for one another. (In the English translation of the play by Jonathan Franzen, Hanschen is called Hansy, as "Hänschen" is literally the German diminutive...
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  • (roughly) the year 2001 to the present. 2001 – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen; Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand; Life of Pi by...
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    were translated into English. He collaborated with Jonathan Franzen and Paul Reitter on Franzen's 2013 book The Kraus Project. Kehlmann's play The Mentor...
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  • The Twenty-Seventh City (category Novels by Jonathan Franzen)
    The Twenty-Seventh City is Jonathan Franzen's debut novel, published in 1988. A complex, partly satirical thriller that studies a family unraveling under...
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  • article, American author Jonathan Franzen included it in his list of influential books, and in an interview with Big Think, Franzen said, "I do not know of...
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  • doesn’t deserve attention but then they review Stephen King." When Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom was published in 2010 to critical acclaim and extensive...
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  • highlighted when the novelist Jonathan Franzen, after his 2001 book The Corrections was selected as Oprah's book of the month. Franzen publicly complained that...
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  • to 2005. The novel has been championed by novelists Robert Stone, Jonathan Franzen and Angela Carter. Carter believed Stead's other novels Cotters England;...
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    admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular. Jonathan Franzen, who in an essay in The New Yorker called Gaddis "an old literary hero...
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  • Mr. Difficult (category Works by Jonathan Franzen)
    Gaddis and the problem of hard-to-read books", is a 2002 essay by Jonathan Franzen that appeared in the 9/30/2002 issue of The New Yorker. It was reprinted...
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    panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections (2001), considers Smiley's book The Greenlanders...
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  • appearances by Metallica, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Michael Chabon, Ludacris, Jonathan Franzen, Fran Drescher, The White Stripes, Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub...
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  • Strong Motion (category Novels by Jonathan Franzen)
    Strong Motion (1992) is the second novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. Strong Motion was noted by reviewers for its impassioned social criticism...
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    Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, Joan Didion, Jonathan Franzen, J.K. Rowling, and Johnny Cash. He wrote one of the earliest pieces...
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  • invaluable study in how to portray the horror of everyday life." Novelist Jonathan Franzen prefers Something Happened to Catch-22, and Christopher Buckley referred...
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  • Macmillan. Picador authors across the UK and the USA have included Jonathan Franzen, Michael Chabon, Marilynne Robinson, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon...
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  • Generation novel by Howard Weinstein "Perchance to Dream", a 1996 essay by Jonathan Franzen, later retitled "Why Bother?" "Perchance to Dream", track 2 from the...
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  • Farther Away (book) (category Works by Jonathan Franzen)
    Farther Away is a 2012 collection of essays by the American writer Jonathan Franzen. Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, The New...
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    authors, including George R. R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen, joined the Authors Guild in filing a class action lawsuit against...
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    Abridged Fiction for his reading of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Baker has also recorded Franzen's 2015 novel, Purity. In 1990, he married actress Becky...
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