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Jonathan Franzen is a frequent contributor of essays, stories, and reported pieces to The New Yorker. He is the author of the novels “ Purity ,” “ Freedom ,” “ The Corrections.
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics. While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels--Purity, Freedom, The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion--and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away, How to Be Alone, and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How to Be Alone), a personal history (The Discomfort Zone), and a translation of Frank W.
Jonathan Franzen is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the author of, most recently, the novel “Purity.” This Week’s Issue Never miss a big New Yorker story again.
Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards.
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.
He crafts novels on the human experience and nonfiction articles on birds. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a National Book Award winner for The Corrections, and his latest book, Freedom, was hailed as a masterpiece of American fiction when it was published in 2010.Jonathan Franzen incorporates environmental themes seamlessly into his works, which may be due, in part, to his love of all.
In Farther Away and How to Be Alone, Jonathan Franzen’s essays were often intensely personal, including ones about his father’s Alzheimer’s, his disillusionment with fiction writing and a.
For a number of years now, Jonathan Franzen has forsworn the most obvious ways of showing off intellect in fiction. In “Perchance to Dream,” an essay. global warming, disinhibited sexuality.
In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes - both human and literary - that have long preoccupied him.Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis.
Franzen is up front, in the address, in affirming that the distribution of social roles, the life of a “global citizen,” was insufficient to drive him toward his commitment. And at the end of the essay, this commitment is reserved for two things: novels and journalism.
These essays offer a great reason to turn of the TV and spend the evening alone, lost in thought.” —Time Out New York “How to be Alone reaffirms the novelist's prerogative to engage in social criticism. And Franzen's calm, passionate critical authority derives not from any special expertise in criminology, neurology or postal science, but.
