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We visited Jonathan Franzen at his California home, where he shared his approach to writing character-driven novels and his thoughts on being a writer in America: “I play for ‘Team Literature' and so I’m on the lookout for things that threaten the team.”
Franzen had a miserable time at junior high school and felt a need to dissociate, which reading books for hours on end made possible: “… that was how I survived.” Reading gave him a sense of a social life, which he didn’t have much of back then: “You have a community of real people and then you have a community that you form as a reader…”
“Pages are more interesting if you’re blowing something open.” Franzen considers himself to be a character-driven author, and compares creating fictional persons whom the reader will experience as real persons to a sort of drug: “There’s something deeply wonderful about setting out to create a character from scratch.” Moreover, he has come to realise that a writer’s abilities are “not a whole lot bigger than the sum of what you’ve lived, or what you’ve encountered, the people you’ve encountered, the situations you've been in, the emotions you’ve experienced.”
Technologically mediated relations are becoming a growing part of our lives, which essentially means that we have “increasing interactions with robots,” which Franzen finds problematic for literature: “I do worry that the power of technology is so strong that we will see fewer people able to find the private space in which to develop a relationship with books.”
Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His novel ‘The Corrections’ (2001) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him a National Book Award, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and placed in in the final for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Franzen is also the author of the novels ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ (1988), ‘Strong Motion’ (1992), ‘Freedom’ (2010) and Purity (2015).
Jonathan Franzen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his home in Santa Cruz, California in January 2016.
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Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
From the 2011 New Yorker Festival: David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, talks with Jonathan Franzen about his decision to become a writer, a crisis early in his career, and how he wrote "The Corrections" in ten months.
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Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: "Purity." Jeffrey Brown visits the author on the California coast to discuss the book's inspiration and why he gets into heated public debates.
View the full story/ transcript:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/purity-jonathan-franzen-dismantles-self-deception-idealism/#transcript
- published: 01 Sep 2015
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Jonathan Franzen, who was hailed as the "Great American Novelist" by Time Magazine in 2009, joined MPR News' Kerri Miller on stage to kick off the 2015 Talking Volumes series on Sept. 15, 2015. Franzen's latest book, "Purity," debuted in early September to glowing reviews.
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American novelist Jonathan Franzen talks to Kirsty Wark about literature and politics, and reads extracts from his latest novel, 'Purity'.
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As a serious writer, Jonathan Franzen likes complex sentences. This is not one of them. Nor is this.
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The acclaimed author of The Corrections and Freedom on his new novel, Purity. With The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley.
- published: 30 Dec 2015
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What's all the fuss about?
Question: Who is overrated?
Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it.
When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be.
There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about?
Question: What is all the fuss about?
Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly.
I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying.
I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing.
I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands.
Recorded On: April 1, 2008
Question: Who is overrated?
Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it.
When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be.
There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about?
Question: What is all the fuss about?
Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly.
I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying.
I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing.
I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands.
Recorded On: April 1, 2008
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Author Jonathan Franzen discusses Purity with Tom Barbash at Book Passage (09-1-15). For more info, visit bookpassage.com.
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We’re pretty sure Jonathan Franzen’s bedtime story is a metaphor for something, but we’re not sure what.
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The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen is the best-selling author of "The Corrections" and "Freedom." Franzen joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss and his new book, "Purity," which the Los Angeles Times calls "fierce writing."
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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, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and a shortlisting for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent novel, Freedom (2010), coincided with a much debated appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist".
Franzen writes for The New Yorker magazine. His 1996 Harper's essay Perchance to Dream bemoaned the state of contemporary literature. 2001's selection of The Corrections for Oprah Winfrey's book club led to a much publicised feud with the talk show host. In recent years, Franzen has become recognised for his purveyance of opinions on everything from social networking services such as Twitter ("the ultimate irresponsible medium") and the proliferation of e-books ("just not permanent enough") to the disintegration of Europe ("The people making the decisions in Europe are bankers. The technicians of finance are making the decisions there. It has very little to do with democracy or the will of the people.") and the self-destruction of America ("almost a rogue state"). Such is the writer's loathing for the technology of his age, the verb "Franzen" has been coined as a way of expressing the action "to fulminate about the deleterious effects of social media."
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33:32Jonathan Franzen: Books Made Me Survive
Jonathan Franzen: Books Made Me SurviveJonathan Franzen: Books Made Me Survive
We visited Jonathan Franzen at his California home, where he shared his approach to writing character-driven novels and his thoughts on being a writer in America: “I play for ‘Team Literature' and so I’m on the lookout for things that threaten the team.” Franzen had a miserable time at junior high school and felt a need to dissociate, which reading books for hours on end made possible: “… that was how I survived.” Reading gave him a sense of a social life, which he didn’t have much of back then: “You have a community of real people and then you have a community that you form as a reader…” “Pages are more interesting if you’re blowing something open.” Franzen considers himself to be a character-driven author, and compares creating fictional persons whom the reader will experience as real persons to a sort of drug: “There’s something deeply wonderful about setting out to create a character from scratch.” Moreover, he has come to realise that a writer’s abilities are “not a whole lot bigger than the sum of what you’ve lived, or what you’ve encountered, the people you’ve encountered, the situations you've been in, the emotions you’ve experienced.” Technologically mediated relations are becoming a growing part of our lives, which essentially means that we have “increasing interactions with robots,” which Franzen finds problematic for literature: “I do worry that the power of technology is so strong that we will see fewer people able to find the private space in which to develop a relationship with books.” Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His novel ‘The Corrections’ (2001) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him a National Book Award, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and placed in in the final for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Franzen is also the author of the novels ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ (1988), ‘Strong Motion’ (1992), ‘Freedom’ (2010) and Purity (2015). Jonathan Franzen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his home in Santa Cruz, California in January 2016. Camera: Jakob Solbakken Edited by: Klaus Elmer Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016 -
86:05Jonathan Franzen talks with David Remnick - The New Yorker Festival - The New Yorker
Jonathan Franzen talks with David Remnick - The New Yorker Festival - The New YorkerJonathan Franzen talks with David Remnick - The New Yorker Festival - The New Yorker
From the 2011 New Yorker Festival: David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, talks with Jonathan Franzen about his decision to become a writer, a crisis early in his career, and how he wrote "The Corrections" in ten months. Still haven’t subscribed to The New Yorker on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/newyorkeryoutubesub CONNECT WITH THE NEW YORKER Web: http://www.newyorker.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewYorker Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newyorker Google+: http://plus.google.com/+newyorker Instagram: http://instagram.com/newyorkermag Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thenewyorker Tumblr: http://newyorker.tumblr.com The Scene: http://thescene.com/thenewyorker Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene Jonathan Franzen talks with David Remnick - The New Yorker Festival - The New Yorker Starring: Jonathan Franzen -
6:48In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen dismantles the deception of idealism
In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen dismantles the deception of idealismIn 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen dismantles the deception of idealism
Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: "Purity." Jeffrey Brown visits the author on the California coast to discuss the book's inspiration and why he gets into heated public debates. View the full story/ transcript:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/purity-jonathan-franzen-dismantles-self-deception-idealism/#transcript -
62:38Talking Volumes: Kerri Miller interviews Jonathan Franzen
Talking Volumes: Kerri Miller interviews Jonathan FranzenTalking Volumes: Kerri Miller interviews Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen, who was hailed as the "Great American Novelist" by Time Magazine in 2009, joined MPR News' Kerri Miller on stage to kick off the 2015 Talking Volumes series on Sept. 15, 2015. Franzen's latest book, "Purity," debuted in early September to glowing reviews. -
22:45Jonathan Franzen interview in full - Newsnight
Jonathan Franzen interview in full - NewsnightJonathan Franzen interview in full - Newsnight
American novelist Jonathan Franzen talks to Kirsty Wark about literature and politics, and reads extracts from his latest novel, 'Purity'. * SUBSCRIBE to get our latest videos http://bbc.in/1iouM30 * -
2:35Jonathan Franzen Hates Twitter, Although...
Jonathan Franzen Hates Twitter, Although...Jonathan Franzen Hates Twitter, Although...
As a serious writer, Jonathan Franzen likes complex sentences. This is not one of them. Nor is this. Subscribe To "The Late Show" Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTube For more content from "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", click HERE: http://bit.ly/1AKISnR Watch full episodes of "The Late Show" HERE: http://bit.ly/1Puei40 Download the Colbert App HERE: http://apple.co/1Qqgwk4 Like "The Late Show" on Facebook HERE: http://on.fb.me/1df139Y Follow "The Late Show" on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1dMzZzG Follow "The Late Show" on Google+ HERE: http://bit.ly/1JlGgzw Watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35 PM ET/10:35 PM CT. Only on CBS. Get the CBS app for iPhone & iPad! Click HERE: http://bit.ly/12rLxge Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream live TV, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B -
60:13Jonathan Franzen | Oct 27, 2015 | Appel Salon
Jonathan Franzen | Oct 27, 2015 | Appel SalonJonathan Franzen | Oct 27, 2015 | Appel Salon
The acclaimed author of The Corrections and Freedom on his new novel, Purity. With The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley. -
17:27David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on Charlie Rose (5/1996)
David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on Charlie Rose (5/1996)David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on Charlie Rose (5/1996)
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2:45Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
Jonathan Franzen on Overrated BooksJonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
What's all the fuss about? Question: Who is overrated? Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it. When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be. There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about? Question: What is all the fuss about? Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly. I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying. I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing. I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands. Recorded On: April 1, 2008 Question: Who is overrated? Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it. When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be. There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about? Question: What is all the fuss about? Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly. I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying. I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing. I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands. Recorded On: April 1, 2008 -
50:04Jonathan Franzen at Book Passage
Jonathan Franzen at Book PassageJonathan Franzen at Book Passage
Author Jonathan Franzen discusses Purity with Tom Barbash at Book Passage (09-1-15). For more info, visit bookpassage.com. -
2:59Jonathan Franzen’s Bedtime Stories
Jonathan Franzen’s Bedtime StoriesJonathan Franzen’s Bedtime Stories
We’re pretty sure Jonathan Franzen’s bedtime story is a metaphor for something, but we’re not sure what. Subscribe To "The Late Show" Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTube For more content from "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", click HERE: http://bit.ly/1AKISnR Watch full episodes of "The Late Show" HERE: http://bit.ly/1Puei40 Download the Colbert App HERE: http://apple.co/1Qqgwk4 Like "The Late Show" on Facebook HERE: http://on.fb.me/1df139Y Follow "The Late Show" on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1dMzZzG Follow "The Late Show" on Google+ HERE: http://bit.ly/1JlGgzw Watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35 PM ET/10:35 PM CT. Only on CBS. Get the CBS app for iPhone & iPad! Click HERE: http://bit.ly/12rLxge Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream live TV, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B -
5:25Jonathan Franzen on new novel "Purity"
Jonathan Franzen on new novel "Purity"Jonathan Franzen on new novel "Purity"
The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen is the best-selling author of "The Corrections" and "Freedom." Franzen joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss and his new book, "Purity," which the Los Angeles Times calls "fierce writing." -
66:53Jonathan Franzen & Andrew Sullivan Conversation
Jonathan Franzen & Andrew Sullivan ConversationJonathan Franzen & Andrew Sullivan Conversation
The Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum presents an on-stage conversation between Jonathan Franzen and Andrew Sullivan. Candis Smith, assistant professor of political science, moderates the discussion, which focuses on the environment, income inequality and family. October 21, 2014. -
3:50Jonathan Franzen: Purity, trolls and politics
Jonathan Franzen: Purity, trolls and politicsJonathan Franzen: Purity, trolls and politics
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Jonathan Franzen: Books Made Me Survive
We visited Jonathan Franzen at his California home, where he shared his approach to writing character-driven novels and his thoughts on being a writer in America: “I play for ‘Team Literature' and so I’m on the lookout for things that threaten the team.” Franzen had a miserable time at junior high school and felt a need to dissociate, which reading books for hours on end made possible: “… that was how I survived.” Reading gave him a sense of a social life, which he didn’t have much of back then: “You have a community of real people and then you have a community that you form as a reader…” “Pages are more interesting if you’re blowing something open.” Franzen considers himself to be a character-driven author, and compares creating fictional persons whom the reader will experience as real ... -
Jonathan Franzen talks with David Remnick - The New Yorker Festival - The New Yorker
From the 2011 New Yorker Festival: David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, talks with Jonathan Franzen about his decision to become a writer, a crisis early in his career, and how he wrote "The Corrections" in ten months. Still haven’t subscribed to The New Yorker on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/newyorkeryoutubesub CONNECT WITH THE NEW YORKER Web: http://www.newyorker.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewYorker Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newyorker Google+: http://plus.google.com/+newyorker Instagram: http://instagram.com/newyorkermag Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thenewyorker Tumblr: http://newyorker.tumblr.com The Scene: http://thescene.com/thenewyorker Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene Jonathan Franzen talk... -
In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen dismantles the deception of idealism
Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: "Purity." Jeffrey Brown visits the author on the California coast to discuss the book's inspiration and why he gets into heated public debates. View the full story/ transcript:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/purity-jonathan-franzen-dismantles-self-deception-idealism/#transcript -
Talking Volumes: Kerri Miller interviews Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen, who was hailed as the "Great American Novelist" by Time Magazine in 2009, joined MPR News' Kerri Miller on stage to kick off the 2015 Talking Volumes series on Sept. 15, 2015. Franzen's latest book, "Purity," debuted in early September to glowing reviews. -
Jonathan Franzen interview in full - Newsnight
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Jonathan Franzen Hates Twitter, Although...
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Jonathan Franzen | Oct 27, 2015 | Appel Salon
The acclaimed author of The Corrections and Freedom on his new novel, Purity. With The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley. -
David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on Charlie Rose (5/1996)
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Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
What's all the fuss about? Question: Who is overrated? Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it. When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be. There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about? Question: What is all the fuss about? Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly. I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinkin... -
Jonathan Franzen at Book Passage
Author Jonathan Franzen discusses Purity with Tom Barbash at Book Passage (09-1-15). For more info, visit bookpassage.com. -
Jonathan Franzen’s Bedtime Stories
We’re pretty sure Jonathan Franzen’s bedtime story is a metaphor for something, but we’re not sure what. Subscribe To "The Late Show" Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTube For more content from "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", click HERE: http://bit.ly/1AKISnR Watch full episodes of "The Late Show" HERE: http://bit.ly/1Puei40 Download the Colbert App HERE: http://apple.co/1Qqgwk4 Like "The Late Show" on Facebook HERE: http://on.fb.me/1df139Y Follow "The Late Show" on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1dMzZzG Follow "The Late Show" on Google+ HERE: http://bit.ly/1JlGgzw Watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35 PM ET/10:35 PM CT. Only on CBS. Get the CBS app for iPhone & iPad! Click HERE: http://bit.ly/12rLxge Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the ... -
Jonathan Franzen on new novel "Purity"
The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen is the best-selling author of "The Corrections" and "Freedom." Franzen joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss and his new book, "Purity," which the Los Angeles Times calls "fierce writing." -
Jonathan Franzen & Andrew Sullivan Conversation
The Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum presents an on-stage conversation between Jonathan Franzen and Andrew Sullivan. Candis Smith, assistant professor of political science, moderates the discussion, which focuses on the environment, income inequality and family. October 21, 2014. -
Jonathan Franzen: Purity, trolls and politics
The author discusses his new novel 'Purity', his problem with agressive internet trolls and why no one wants to shake hands any more. Subscribe for more like this, every day: http://bit.ly/1epe41j Dangerous world: http://bit.ly/1JCsSYb The news explained: http://bit.ly/1epgay4 Music: http://bit.ly/1RVTRNy Technology: http://bit.ly/1LI1K9y Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1wQ1Gty Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1mFUjBD -
Meet the Writers - Jonathan Franzen
Buy the Book! http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/freedom-jonathan-franzen/1020447053?ean=9780312600846&itm;=2&usri;=jonathan%2bfranzen Jonathan Franzen, the author of The Corrections is back with Freedom -- another poignant novel about modern family life. For more great book-centric videos, go to www.bn.com/studio. Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/#!/bnbuzz "Like" Barnes & Noble on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/barnesandnoble Sign up for the B&N; Newsletter http://www.barnesandnoble.com/newsletters Be a Barnes & Noble Member http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Membership-Join/379002828 -
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Franzen Explores the Post-9/11 Family in 'Freedom'
Read the Transcript: http://to.pbs.org/aVyP15 Jeffrey Brown talks to novelist Jonathan Franzen who was recently on the cover of Time Magazine with the headline "Great American Novelist." The author talks about his new book "Freedom." -
Jonathan Franzen Persecuted Gay In Texas
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert his guest Jonathan Franzen told a quick story about a young gay man, 22 at the time, who was given a 20 Year prison sentence in Texas about a decade ago for consensual sex with an underage teen boy. This was during a time when gay sex was still illegal in Texas. The sentence length is not in line with sentencing guidelines. I really hope someone reads this and shows the ACLU, Lambda Legal, PFlag, or HRC because it is painful that this has happened to him and has been abandoned. -
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Jonathan Franzen on Bookworm [2001]
Jonathan Franzen discusses "The Corrections" with MS, from Dec 2001. KCRW do audio. -
The Kraus Project: Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Kehlmann, and Paul Reitter
Deutsches Haus at New York University presents The Kraus Project: Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Kehlmann, and Paul Reitter Kimmel Center - Rosenthal Pavilion, New York October 4th, 2013 Renowned authors Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Kehlmann will speak about The Kraus Project with Professor Paul Reitter. Their conversation will be moderated by Martin Rauchbauer, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though he had a fervent following, which includ... -
A Conversation with Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan Franzen "Farther Away" Essay Pt 4
Taken from the essay collection "Farther Away." In the essay Franzen, "...examines his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace." (quote from back of audiobook) Link to Text: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Jonathan Franzen: Books Made Me Survive
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We visited Jonathan Franzen at his California home, where he shared his approach to writing character-driven novels and his thoughts on being a writer in Americ...
We visited Jonathan Franzen at his California home, where he shared his approach to writing character-driven novels and his thoughts on being a writer in America: “I play for ‘Team Literature' and so I’m on the lookout for things that threaten the team.”
Franzen had a miserable time at junior high school and felt a need to dissociate, which reading books for hours on end made possible: “… that was how I survived.” Reading gave him a sense of a social life, which he didn’t have much of back then: “You have a community of real people and then you have a community that you form as a reader…”
“Pages are more interesting if you’re blowing something open.” Franzen considers himself to be a character-driven author, and compares creating fictional persons whom the reader will experience as real persons to a sort of drug: “There’s something deeply wonderful about setting out to create a character from scratch.” Moreover, he has come to realise that a writer’s abilities are “not a whole lot bigger than the sum of what you’ve lived, or what you’ve encountered, the people you’ve encountered, the situations you've been in, the emotions you’ve experienced.”
Technologically mediated relations are becoming a growing part of our lives, which essentially means that we have “increasing interactions with robots,” which Franzen finds problematic for literature: “I do worry that the power of technology is so strong that we will see fewer people able to find the private space in which to develop a relationship with books.”
Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His novel ‘The Corrections’ (2001) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him a National Book Award, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and placed in in the final for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Franzen is also the author of the novels ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ (1988), ‘Strong Motion’ (1992), ‘Freedom’ (2010) and Purity (2015).
Jonathan Franzen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his home in Santa Cruz, California in January 2016.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
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We visited Jonathan Franzen at his California home, where he shared his approach to writing character-driven novels and his thoughts on being a writer in America: “I play for ‘Team Literature' and so I’m on the lookout for things that threaten the team.”
Franzen had a miserable time at junior high school and felt a need to dissociate, which reading books for hours on end made possible: “… that was how I survived.” Reading gave him a sense of a social life, which he didn’t have much of back then: “You have a community of real people and then you have a community that you form as a reader…”
“Pages are more interesting if you’re blowing something open.” Franzen considers himself to be a character-driven author, and compares creating fictional persons whom the reader will experience as real persons to a sort of drug: “There’s something deeply wonderful about setting out to create a character from scratch.” Moreover, he has come to realise that a writer’s abilities are “not a whole lot bigger than the sum of what you’ve lived, or what you’ve encountered, the people you’ve encountered, the situations you've been in, the emotions you’ve experienced.”
Technologically mediated relations are becoming a growing part of our lives, which essentially means that we have “increasing interactions with robots,” which Franzen finds problematic for literature: “I do worry that the power of technology is so strong that we will see fewer people able to find the private space in which to develop a relationship with books.”
Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His novel ‘The Corrections’ (2001) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him a National Book Award, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and placed in in the final for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Franzen is also the author of the novels ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ (1988), ‘Strong Motion’ (1992), ‘Freedom’ (2010) and Purity (2015).
Jonathan Franzen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his home in Santa Cruz, California in January 2016.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
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Jonathan Franzen talks with David Remnick - The New Yorker Festival - The New Yorker
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From the 2011 New Yorker Festival: David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, talks with Jonathan Franzen about his decision to become a writer, a crisis earl...
From the 2011 New Yorker Festival: David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, talks with Jonathan Franzen about his decision to become a writer, a crisis early in his career, and how he wrote "The Corrections" in ten months.
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In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen dismantles the deception of idealism
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- Updated: 01 Sep 2015
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Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: "Purity." Jeffrey Brown ...
Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: "Purity." Jeffrey Brown visits the author on the California coast to discuss the book's inspiration and why he gets into heated public debates.
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wn.com/In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen Dismantles The Deception Of Idealism
Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geography, connected by a theme named in its title: "Purity." Jeffrey Brown visits the author on the California coast to discuss the book's inspiration and why he gets into heated public debates.
View the full story/ transcript:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/purity-jonathan-franzen-dismantles-self-deception-idealism/#transcript
- published: 01 Sep 2015
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Talking Volumes: Kerri Miller interviews Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan Franzen, who was hailed as the "Great American Novelist" by Time Magazine in 2009, joined MPR News' Kerri Miller on stage to kick off the 2015 Talking ...
Jonathan Franzen, who was hailed as the "Great American Novelist" by Time Magazine in 2009, joined MPR News' Kerri Miller on stage to kick off the 2015 Talking Volumes series on Sept. 15, 2015. Franzen's latest book, "Purity," debuted in early September to glowing reviews.
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Jonathan Franzen, who was hailed as the "Great American Novelist" by Time Magazine in 2009, joined MPR News' Kerri Miller on stage to kick off the 2015 Talking Volumes series on Sept. 15, 2015. Franzen's latest book, "Purity," debuted in early September to glowing reviews.
- published: 01 Oct 2015
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Jonathan Franzen interview in full - Newsnight
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American novelist Jonathan Franzen talks to Kirsty Wark about literature and politics, and reads extracts from his latest novel, 'Purity'.
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American novelist Jonathan Franzen talks to Kirsty Wark about literature and politics, and reads extracts from his latest novel, 'Purity'.
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American novelist Jonathan Franzen talks to Kirsty Wark about literature and politics, and reads extracts from his latest novel, 'Purity'.
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- published: 30 Sep 2015
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Jonathan Franzen Hates Twitter, Although...
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- Updated: 29 Oct 2015
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As a serious writer, Jonathan Franzen likes complex sentences. This is not one of them. Nor is this.
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Jonathan Franzen | Oct 27, 2015 | Appel Salon
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The acclaimed author of The Corrections and Freedom on his new novel, Purity. With The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley.
The acclaimed author of The Corrections and Freedom on his new novel, Purity. With The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley.
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The acclaimed author of The Corrections and Freedom on his new novel, Purity. With The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley.
- published: 30 Dec 2015
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David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on Charlie Rose (5/1996)
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- Duration: 17:27
- Updated: 28 Sep 2015
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- published: 28 Sep 2015
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Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
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What's all the fuss about?
Question: Who is overrated?
Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never r...
What's all the fuss about?
Question: Who is overrated?
Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it.
When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be.
There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about?
Question: What is all the fuss about?
Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly.
I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying.
I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing.
I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands.
Recorded On: April 1, 2008
Question: Who is overrated?
Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it.
When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be.
There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about?
Question: What is all the fuss about?
Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly.
I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying.
I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing.
I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands.
Recorded On: April 1, 2008
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What's all the fuss about?
Question: Who is overrated?
Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it.
When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be.
There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about?
Question: What is all the fuss about?
Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly.
I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying.
I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing.
I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands.
Recorded On: April 1, 2008
Question: Who is overrated?
Jonathan Franzen: I always felt E.M. Forster was overrated frankly, to take an obvious example. Never really got it.
When people go on and on about Graham Green, especially his important books like "End of the Affair," I get puzzled. But I shouldn't be.
There's nothing wrong with Green and there's nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what's all the fuss about?
Question: What is all the fuss about?
Jonathan Franzen: Damned if I know frankly.
I think there must be American writers, Dave Wallace [David Foster Wallace], I think is one of them, and probably George Saunders is another, who I don't think the Brits get at all. I think they're just like, this is so puerile, it's so easy, I don't know what they're thinking, or this is so bratty, it's so annoying, or it's so broad or whatever they're saying.
I think there's a category of American fiction that just doesn't cross the ocean [North Atlantic Ocean] so well. And I think that I'm talking about a not inconsiderable strain of British fiction writing, to some people, this is what a novel is, it's an E.M. Forrester novel or a Graham Green novel. They're living practitioners in England producing novels that also today seem like, well, this is what a real novelist is and this is what a real novel is. And for some of us in America, you just say, "That's not even a novelist hardly, that's sort of a near perfect replica of a novel." So it's a taste thing.
I think there's a kind of well made product that Forster pioneered and represents that engendered a great many very well made novels in England in the 20th century that you either think is like what a novel should be, or else you just throw up your hands.
Recorded On: April 1, 2008
- published: 24 Apr 2012
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Jonathan Franzen at Book Passage
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Author Jonathan Franzen discusses Purity with Tom Barbash at Book Passage (09-1-15). For more info, visit bookpassage.com.
Author Jonathan Franzen discusses Purity with Tom Barbash at Book Passage (09-1-15). For more info, visit bookpassage.com.
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Author Jonathan Franzen discusses Purity with Tom Barbash at Book Passage (09-1-15). For more info, visit bookpassage.com.
- published: 04 Nov 2015
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Jonathan Franzen’s Bedtime Stories
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We’re pretty sure Jonathan Franzen’s bedtime story is a metaphor for something, but we’re not sure what.
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- published: 29 Oct 2015
- views: 79250
Jonathan Franzen on new novel "Purity"
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- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 29 Oct 2015
- views: 1114
The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen i...
The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen is the best-selling author of "The Corrections" and "Freedom." Franzen joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss and his new book, "Purity," which the Los Angeles Times calls "fierce writing."
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The author has sold millions of books and won the National Book Award. Time magazine put him on the cover with the headline "Great American Novelist." Franzen is the best-selling author of "The Corrections" and "Freedom." Franzen joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss and his new book, "Purity," which the Los Angeles Times calls "fierce writing."
- published: 29 Oct 2015
- views: 1114
Jonathan Franzen & Andrew Sullivan Conversation
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- Duration: 66:53
- Updated: 04 Nov 2014
- views: 5072
The Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum presents an on-stage conversation between Jonathan Franzen and Andrew Sullivan. Candis Smith, assistant professor of polit...
The Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum presents an on-stage conversation between Jonathan Franzen and Andrew Sullivan. Candis Smith, assistant professor of political science, moderates the discussion, which focuses on the environment, income inequality and family.
October 21, 2014.
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The Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum presents an on-stage conversation between Jonathan Franzen and Andrew Sullivan. Candis Smith, assistant professor of political science, moderates the discussion, which focuses on the environment, income inequality and family.
October 21, 2014.
- published: 04 Nov 2014
- views: 5072
Jonathan Franzen: Purity, trolls and politics
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- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 01 Oct 2015
- views: 1720
The author discusses his new novel 'Purity', his problem with agressive internet trolls and why no one wants to shake hands any more.
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The author discusses his new novel 'Purity', his problem with agressive internet trolls and why no one wants to shake hands any more.
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- published: 01 Oct 2015
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Meet the Writers - Jonathan Franzen
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- Duration: 12:32
- Updated: 30 Aug 2010
- views: 66333
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Jonathan Franzen, the author of The Corrections is back with Freedom -- another poignant novel about modern family life.
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Jonathan Franzen Freedom , Great American Novel
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- Duration: 18:48
- Updated: 19 Oct 2011
- views: 19748
Jonathan Franzen Freedom , Great American Novel
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- published: 19 Oct 2011
- views: 19748
Franzen Explores the Post-9/11 Family in 'Freedom'
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- Duration: 7:15
- Updated: 13 Oct 2010
- views: 14272
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Jeffrey Brown talks to novelist Jonathan Franzen who was recently on the cover of Time Magazine with the headl...
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Jeffrey Brown talks to novelist Jonathan Franzen who was recently on the cover of Time Magazine with the headline "Great American Novelist." The author talks about his new book "Freedom."
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Jeffrey Brown talks to novelist Jonathan Franzen who was recently on the cover of Time Magazine with the headline "Great American Novelist." The author talks about his new book "Freedom."
- published: 13 Oct 2010
- views: 14272
Jonathan Franzen Persecuted Gay In Texas
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- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 31 Oct 2015
- views: 1154
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert his guest Jonathan Franzen told a quick story about a young gay man, 22 at the time, who was given a 20 Year prison senten...
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert his guest Jonathan Franzen told a quick story about a young gay man, 22 at the time, who was given a 20 Year prison sentence in Texas about a decade ago for consensual sex with an underage teen boy. This was during a time when gay sex was still illegal in Texas. The sentence length is not in line with sentencing guidelines. I really hope someone reads this and shows the ACLU, Lambda Legal, PFlag, or HRC because it is painful that this has happened to him and has been abandoned.
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On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert his guest Jonathan Franzen told a quick story about a young gay man, 22 at the time, who was given a 20 Year prison sentence in Texas about a decade ago for consensual sex with an underage teen boy. This was during a time when gay sex was still illegal in Texas. The sentence length is not in line with sentencing guidelines. I really hope someone reads this and shows the ACLU, Lambda Legal, PFlag, or HRC because it is painful that this has happened to him and has been abandoned.
- published: 31 Oct 2015
- views: 1154
Jonathan Franzen on Midwestern Values
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- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
- views: 50168
Jonathan Franzen on Bookworm [2001]
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- Duration: 29:05
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
- views: 5549
Jonathan Franzen discusses "The Corrections" with MS, from Dec 2001. KCRW do audio.
- published: 07 Feb 2013
- views: 5549
The Kraus Project: Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Kehlmann, and Paul Reitter
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- Duration: 89:58
- Updated: 14 Oct 2013
- views: 9056
Deutsches Haus at New York University presents
The Kraus Project: Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Kehlmann, and Paul Reitter
Kimmel Center - Rosenthal Pavilion, New Yo...
Deutsches Haus at New York University presents
The Kraus Project: Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Kehlmann, and Paul Reitter
Kimmel Center - Rosenthal Pavilion, New York
October 4th, 2013
Renowned authors Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Kehlmann will speak about The Kraus Project with Professor Paul Reitter. Their conversation will be moderated by Martin Rauchbauer, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU.
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though he had a fervent following, which included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Luckily, Jonathan Franzen is one of them.
In The Kraus Project, Franzen, whose "calm, passionate critical authority" has been praised in The New York Times Book Review, not only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult writer, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America.
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Deutsches Haus at New York University presents
The Kraus Project: Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Kehlmann, and Paul Reitter
Kimmel Center - Rosenthal Pavilion, New York
October 4th, 2013
Renowned authors Jonathan Franzen and Daniel Kehlmann will speak about The Kraus Project with Professor Paul Reitter. Their conversation will be moderated by Martin Rauchbauer, Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU.
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though he had a fervent following, which included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Luckily, Jonathan Franzen is one of them.
In The Kraus Project, Franzen, whose "calm, passionate critical authority" has been praised in The New York Times Book Review, not only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult writer, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America.
Video recorded and edited by Laia Cabrera & Co.
http://laiacabrera.com/company
- published: 14 Oct 2013
- views: 9056
A Conversation with Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen
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- Duration: 76:44
- Updated: 29 Nov 2013
- views: 39923
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/angel-esmeralda-don-delillo-conversation-jonathan-franzen
From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/angel-esmeralda-don-delillo-conversation-jonathan-franzen
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From: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/angel-esmeralda-don-delillo-conversation-jonathan-franzen
- published: 29 Nov 2013
- views: 39923
Jonathan Franzen "Farther Away" Essay Pt 4
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- Duration: 13:36
- Updated: 09 Nov 2014
- views: 4146
Taken from the essay collection "Farther Away." In the essay Franzen, "...examines his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wal...
Taken from the essay collection "Farther Away." In the essay Franzen, "...examines his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace." (quote from back of audiobook) Link to Text: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Taken from the essay collection "Farther Away." In the essay Franzen, "...examines his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace." (quote from back of audiobook) Link to Text: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
- published: 09 Nov 2014
- views: 4146
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Freedom, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
In which Ryan reviews "Freedom" Jonathan Franzen's fourth novel published in 2010. He also very seriously considers reading nothing but Franzen for the next, oh I don't know, 6 months or so. YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL THINGS! twitter: https://twitter.com/ftloryan tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ftloryan youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ryanrabid ♬♬♬ -
Jonathan Franzen talks about his latest novel, Purity
Jonathan Franzen introduces his new novel, Purity. Buy the book online at Waterstones.com: http://bit.ly/1CDRltj -
Jonathan Franzen on Author Videos & the Novel
Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections, discusses how odd it is to talk about novels through the medium of a brief author video. http://www.jonathanfranzen.com http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/ -
Jonathan Franzen - Fulbright Student to Germany, 1981
American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in 1981 for a project in creative writing - discusses his Fulbright experience and its impact on his career. Mr. Franzen is interviewed by recently-returned Fulbright Alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Fulbright U.S. Student award to Germany in 2009 was also for a project in creative writing. Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels, including the critically acclaimed The Corrections (2001), which earned a National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. His most recent novel, Freedom, was published in August 2010. Franzen has also earned recognition for his work in The New Yorker magazine and for "Perchance to Dream," an essay published in Harper's maga... -
Jonathan Franzen: On Facing the Blank Page
Jonathan Franzen – author of internationally renowned novels such as ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’ – here argues that the only way to deal with the ‘blank page’ is by working on the story in your head before sitting down to write. “If you say: ‘I want to write’, you turn on the computer and you look at the blank page – it’s over, it’s not going to happen.” Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His novel ‘The Corrections’ (2001) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him a National Book Award, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and placed him in the final for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Franzen is also the author of the novels ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ (1988), ‘Strong Motion’ (1992), ‘Freedom’ (2010) and Purity (2015). Jonathan Franzen was interview... -
Jonathan Franzen: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Jonathan Franzen appears at the 2010 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: The 2001 National Book Award for fiction went to Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," a sprawling postmodern family drama that was one of the decade's best-selling works of literary fiction. The novel was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Before "The Corrections" Franzen was better known for his nonfiction work, such as an essay he wrote in 1996 for Harper's bemoaning the state of literary fiction. Franzen's new novel is "Freedom"(Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He is a 2002 fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and makes his home in New York. -
Novelist Jonathan Franzen on 'Radical Misanthropy'
Grist's Amanda Little interviews novelist Jonathan Franzen on emotional dysfunction and environmentalism. Video by Jennifer Prediger. -
Purity, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
In which Ryan reviews the most highly anticipated book of 2015, at least for some corners of the reading community. Franzen has added a long one to his resume of long books -- but does it further his reputation? or hurt it? A playlist of the books I've reviewed: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL THINGS: twitter: https://twitter.com/ftloryan tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ftloryan youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ryanrabid ♬♬♬ -
Novelist Jonathan Franzen on Environmental Activism and Engagement
Novelist Jonathan Franzen talks about the way main character Walter Berglund learns how to connect what he cares about and other people. Interview by Amanda Little. Video by Jennifer Prediger -
Novelist Jonathan Franzen Plays Grist's Bird Game
Novelist Jonathan Franzen plays a bird identification game with Amanda Little of Grist.org. Video by Jennifer Prediger. -
Author Franzen on the plight of rare birds
Novelist Jonathan Franzen - who when he's not writing is a keen birdwatcher - has been spending a lot of time in Europe attacking governments over what he sees as their refusal to implement laws protecting rare migratory birds. -
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - Book Review by Lily Richards, Unity Books
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz - outré rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival - still doi...
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
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- Duration: 7:13
- Updated: 31 Aug 2015
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In which Ryan reviews "Freedom" Jonathan Franzen's fourth novel published in 2010. He also very seriously considers reading nothing but Franzen for the next, oh...
In which Ryan reviews "Freedom" Jonathan Franzen's fourth novel published in 2010. He also very seriously considers reading nothing but Franzen for the next, oh I don't know, 6 months or so.
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In which Ryan reviews "Freedom" Jonathan Franzen's fourth novel published in 2010. He also very seriously considers reading nothing but Franzen for the next, oh I don't know, 6 months or so.
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- published: 31 Aug 2015
- views: 804
Jonathan Franzen talks about his latest novel, Purity
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- Duration: 1:42
- Updated: 26 Aug 2015
- views: 1297
Jonathan Franzen introduces his new novel, Purity.
Buy the book online at Waterstones.com: http://bit.ly/1CDRltj
Jonathan Franzen introduces his new novel, Purity.
Buy the book online at Waterstones.com: http://bit.ly/1CDRltj
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Jonathan Franzen introduces his new novel, Purity.
Buy the book online at Waterstones.com: http://bit.ly/1CDRltj
- published: 26 Aug 2015
- views: 1297
Jonathan Franzen on Author Videos & the Novel
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 15 Aug 2010
- views: 46085
Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections, discusses how odd it is to talk about novels through the medium of a brief author video.
http://www....
Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections, discusses how odd it is to talk about novels through the medium of a brief author video.
http://www.jonathanfranzen.com
http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/
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Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections, discusses how odd it is to talk about novels through the medium of a brief author video.
http://www.jonathanfranzen.com
http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/
- published: 15 Aug 2010
- views: 46085
Jonathan Franzen - Fulbright Student to Germany, 1981
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- Duration: 7:20
- Updated: 14 Aug 2012
- views: 3790
American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in 1981 for a project in creative writing - discu...
American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in 1981 for a project in creative writing - discusses his Fulbright experience and its impact on his career. Mr. Franzen is interviewed by recently-returned Fulbright Alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Fulbright U.S. Student award to Germany in 2009 was also for a project in creative writing.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels, including the critically acclaimed The Corrections (2001), which earned a National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. His most recent novel, Freedom, was published in August 2010. Franzen has also earned recognition for his work in The New Yorker magazine and for "Perchance to Dream," an essay published in Harper's magazine in 1996, in which he critically examines the place of the novel in contemporary American society.
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American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in 1981 for a project in creative writing - discusses his Fulbright experience and its impact on his career. Mr. Franzen is interviewed by recently-returned Fulbright Alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Fulbright U.S. Student award to Germany in 2009 was also for a project in creative writing.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels, including the critically acclaimed The Corrections (2001), which earned a National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. His most recent novel, Freedom, was published in August 2010. Franzen has also earned recognition for his work in The New Yorker magazine and for "Perchance to Dream," an essay published in Harper's magazine in 1996, in which he critically examines the place of the novel in contemporary American society.
- published: 14 Aug 2012
- views: 3790
Jonathan Franzen: On Facing the Blank Page
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- Duration: 0:46
- Updated: 23 Feb 2016
- views: 487
Jonathan Franzen – author of internationally renowned novels such as ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’ – here argues that the only way to deal with the ‘blank pag...
Jonathan Franzen – author of internationally renowned novels such as ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’ – here argues that the only way to deal with the ‘blank page’ is by working on the story in your head before sitting down to write.
“If you say: ‘I want to write’, you turn on the computer and you look at the blank page – it’s over, it’s not going to happen.”
Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His novel ‘The Corrections’ (2001) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him a National Book Award, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and placed him in the final for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Franzen is also the author of the novels ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ (1988), ‘Strong Motion’ (1992), ‘Freedom’ (2010) and Purity (2015).
Jonathan Franzen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his home in Santa Cruz, California in January 2016.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
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Jonathan Franzen – author of internationally renowned novels such as ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’ – here argues that the only way to deal with the ‘blank page’ is by working on the story in your head before sitting down to write.
“If you say: ‘I want to write’, you turn on the computer and you look at the blank page – it’s over, it’s not going to happen.”
Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His novel ‘The Corrections’ (2001) received widespread critical acclaim and earned him a National Book Award, a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and placed him in the final for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Franzen is also the author of the novels ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ (1988), ‘Strong Motion’ (1992), ‘Freedom’ (2010) and Purity (2015).
Jonathan Franzen was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his home in Santa Cruz, California in January 2016.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016
- published: 23 Feb 2016
- views: 487
Jonathan Franzen: 2010 National Book Festival
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- Duration: 33:52
- Updated: 13 Oct 2010
- views: 27583
Author Jonathan Franzen appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: The 2001 National Book Award for fiction went to Jonathan Franzen's "T...
Author Jonathan Franzen appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: The 2001 National Book Award for fiction went to Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," a sprawling postmodern family drama that was one of the decade's best-selling works of literary fiction. The novel was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Before "The Corrections" Franzen was better known for his nonfiction work, such as an essay he wrote in 1996 for Harper's bemoaning the state of literary fiction. Franzen's new novel is "Freedom"(Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He is a 2002 fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and makes his home in New York.
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Author Jonathan Franzen appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: The 2001 National Book Award for fiction went to Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," a sprawling postmodern family drama that was one of the decade's best-selling works of literary fiction. The novel was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Before "The Corrections" Franzen was better known for his nonfiction work, such as an essay he wrote in 1996 for Harper's bemoaning the state of literary fiction. Franzen's new novel is "Freedom"(Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He is a 2002 fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and makes his home in New York.
- published: 13 Oct 2010
- views: 27583
Novelist Jonathan Franzen on 'Radical Misanthropy'
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- Duration: 1:51
- Updated: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 6143
Grist's Amanda Little interviews novelist Jonathan Franzen on emotional dysfunction and environmentalism. Video by Jennifer Prediger.
Grist's Amanda Little interviews novelist Jonathan Franzen on emotional dysfunction and environmentalism. Video by Jennifer Prediger.
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Grist's Amanda Little interviews novelist Jonathan Franzen on emotional dysfunction and environmentalism. Video by Jennifer Prediger.
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 6143
Purity, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
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- Duration: 7:29
- Updated: 09 Feb 2016
- views: 344
In which Ryan reviews the most highly anticipated book of 2015, at least for some corners of the reading community. Franzen has added a long one to his resume o...
In which Ryan reviews the most highly anticipated book of 2015, at least for some corners of the reading community. Franzen has added a long one to his resume of long books -- but does it further his reputation? or hurt it?
A playlist of the books I've reviewed:
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In which Ryan reviews the most highly anticipated book of 2015, at least for some corners of the reading community. Franzen has added a long one to his resume of long books -- but does it further his reputation? or hurt it?
A playlist of the books I've reviewed:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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- published: 09 Feb 2016
- views: 344
Novelist Jonathan Franzen on Environmental Activism and Engagement
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- Duration: 1:31
- Updated: 15 Dec 2010
- views: 2067
Novelist Jonathan Franzen talks about the way main character Walter Berglund learns how to connect what he cares about and other people. Interview by Amanda Lit...
Novelist Jonathan Franzen talks about the way main character Walter Berglund learns how to connect what he cares about and other people. Interview by Amanda Little. Video by Jennifer Prediger
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Novelist Jonathan Franzen talks about the way main character Walter Berglund learns how to connect what he cares about and other people. Interview by Amanda Little. Video by Jennifer Prediger
- published: 15 Dec 2010
- views: 2067
Novelist Jonathan Franzen Plays Grist's Bird Game
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- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 06 Dec 2010
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Novelist Jonathan Franzen plays a bird identification game with Amanda Little of Grist.org. Video by Jennifer Prediger.
Novelist Jonathan Franzen plays a bird identification game with Amanda Little of Grist.org. Video by Jennifer Prediger.
wn.com/Novelist Jonathan Franzen Plays Grist's Bird Game
Novelist Jonathan Franzen plays a bird identification game with Amanda Little of Grist.org. Video by Jennifer Prediger.
- published: 06 Dec 2010
- views: 4964
Author Franzen on the plight of rare birds
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- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 22 Jun 2013
- views: 970
Novelist Jonathan Franzen - who when he's not writing is a keen birdwatcher - has been spending a lot of time in Europe attacking governments over what he sees...
Novelist Jonathan Franzen - who when he's not writing is a keen birdwatcher - has been spending a lot of time in Europe attacking governments over what he sees as their refusal to implement laws protecting rare migratory birds.
wn.com/Author Franzen On The Plight Of Rare Birds
Novelist Jonathan Franzen - who when he's not writing is a keen birdwatcher - has been spending a lot of time in Europe attacking governments over what he sees as their refusal to implement laws protecting rare migratory birds.
- published: 22 Jun 2013
- views: 970
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - Book Review by Lily Richards, Unity Books
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 27 Sep 2010
- views: 8567
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty wa...
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz - outré rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival - still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbour," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?
Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
ISBN 9780007318520
wn.com/Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Book Review By Lily Richards, Unity Books
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz - outré rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival - still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbour," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?
Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
ISBN 9780007318520
- published: 27 Sep 2010
- views: 8567
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Jonathan Franzen reads from The Corrections
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Jonathan Franzen: Reflections on Oprah
Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Corrections handled it differently? -
The Corrections | Book Review
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The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
In which Ryan reviews "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen, a book that has been hyped up to almost untouchable levels. Does the book live up to the hype? Should Ryan read his book "Purity" next? YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL THINGS! twitter: https://twitter.com/ftloryan tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ftloryan youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ryanrabid ♬♬♬ -
The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen [BookReview]
Buy The Twenty-Seventh City on the Book Depository (yep I'm an affiliate): http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781841157481/?a_aid=Bookchemist The Corrections: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780312984298/?a_aid=Bookchemist Freedom: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781250000019/?a_aid=Bookchemist Top 10 Books Read in 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5y-jonfngQ My thoughts on Franzen's debut novel, much different from his later, world-famous works, but almost as awesome. Have you read the Twenty-Seventh City? Did you like it? Do you like Franzen, both as an author and as a person? Let me know in the comments! -
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
This is a book trailer for The Corrections, a book by Jonathan Franzen that won the National Book Award in 2001. The book was also a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The plot follows the Lambert family, and the mother Enid's wish to bring the family back together for one last Christmas at their home in Saint Jude. In 2005 The Corrections was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels. -
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen was born August 17, 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois. He is now 54. He is the son of Irene and Earl T. Franzen He attended Swarthmore College and Freie Universität Berlin. Jonathan married Valerie Cornell. They both write everyday. Then eat and read. He later divorced her in 1994. Jonathan Franzen also wrote "The Twenty-Seventh City", "Strong Motion", and "Freedom". Awards won. Whiting Writers' Award, Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists, Berlin Prize, National Book Award, Salon Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections, New York Times Best Books of the Year for The Corrections, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for The Corrections), Pulitzer Prize finalist (Fiction), James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner (Fiction) for The Corrections, PEN/Faulkner A... -
"They're the band for you": Jonathan Franzen on the Mekons
Clip from the upcoming documentary REVENGE OF THE MEKONS. Here, best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen describes why the Mekons provided inspiration when he was writing The Corrections. For more information, go to http://www.mekonsmovie.com and stop by the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revenge-of-the-Mekons/158606240816590?ref=ts -
IMAGINATION PRINCIPLE: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, and the Unlikable Character
Do all protagonists need to be likable? Perhaps not in the way you would think. Let's look at Jonathan Franzen's killer 2001 novel, "The Corrections" for an example. -
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen--Audiobook Excerpt
Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Jonathan Franzen's #1 bestselling novel Freedom. In his first novel since The Corrections, Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Walter and Patty Berglund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time. Learn more about the book Freedom at http://us.macmillan.com/freedom/JonathanFranzen Read more about author Jonathan Franzen at http://us.macmillan.com/author/jonathanfranzen Read about aud... -
Jonathan Franzen: 2011 Heartland Prize for Fiction
http://chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival events. Beginning with his 2001 novel, The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has been celebrated as one of the most perceptive and talented chroniclers of contemporary American life. In Freedom, Franzen delves into the heart of one complicated Minnesota family. Walter and Patty Berglund's middle-aged growing pains—the messiness of love found and lost, roads taken and not—is, in the words of one critic, an "indelible portrait of our times" and earned him a nomination for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The winner of the National Book Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction for The Corrections, Franzen is also the author of The Discomfort Zone (memoir), How to Be Alone (essays), and the no...
Jonathan Franzen reads from The Corrections
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- Duration: 5:36
- Updated: 15 Nov 2010
- views: 7070
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...
92Y Main Reading Series: http://www.92y.org/shop/category.asp?category=Programs+-+Literary+Readings888Main+Reading+Series888&ev;_ads=YouTube_MainReadingSeries
Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.
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92Y Main Reading Series: http://www.92y.org/shop/category.asp?category=Programs+-+Literary+Readings888Main+Reading+Series888&ev;_ads=YouTube_MainReadingSeries
Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.
- published: 15 Nov 2010
- views: 7070
Jonathan Franzen: Reflections on Oprah
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- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 28965
Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Correc...
Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Corrections handled it differently?
wn.com/Jonathan Franzen Reflections On Oprah
Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Corrections handled it differently?
- published: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 28965
The Corrections | Book Review
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- Duration: 6:07
- Updated: 31 Jan 2014
- views: 2869
Buy this book from The Book Depository to earn me some dollar (cheers) - http://www.bookdepository.com/Corrections-Jonathan-Franzen/9780007232444/?a_aid=MercysB...
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- published: 31 Jan 2014
- views: 2869
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
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- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 12 Oct 2015
- views: 889
In which Ryan reviews "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen, a book that has been hyped up to almost untouchable levels. Does the book live up to the hype? Shou...
In which Ryan reviews "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen, a book that has been hyped up to almost untouchable levels. Does the book live up to the hype? Should Ryan read his book "Purity" next?
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wn.com/The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen Book Review
In which Ryan reviews "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen, a book that has been hyped up to almost untouchable levels. Does the book live up to the hype? Should Ryan read his book "Purity" next?
YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL THINGS!
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- published: 12 Oct 2015
- views: 889
The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen [BookReview]
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- Duration: 5:48
- Updated: 28 Sep 2013
- views: 644
Buy The Twenty-Seventh City on the Book Depository (yep I'm an affiliate):
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781841157481/?a_aid=Bookchemist
The Corrections...
Buy The Twenty-Seventh City on the Book Depository (yep I'm an affiliate):
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781841157481/?a_aid=Bookchemist
The Corrections: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780312984298/?a_aid=Bookchemist
Freedom: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781250000019/?a_aid=Bookchemist
Top 10 Books Read in 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5y-jonfngQ
My thoughts on Franzen's debut novel, much different from his later, world-famous works, but almost as awesome.
Have you read the Twenty-Seventh City? Did you like it? Do you like Franzen, both as an author and as a person?
Let me know in the comments!
wn.com/The Twenty Seventh City By Jonathan Franzen Bookreview
Buy The Twenty-Seventh City on the Book Depository (yep I'm an affiliate):
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781841157481/?a_aid=Bookchemist
The Corrections: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780312984298/?a_aid=Bookchemist
Freedom: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781250000019/?a_aid=Bookchemist
Top 10 Books Read in 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5y-jonfngQ
My thoughts on Franzen's debut novel, much different from his later, world-famous works, but almost as awesome.
Have you read the Twenty-Seventh City? Did you like it? Do you like Franzen, both as an author and as a person?
Let me know in the comments!
- published: 28 Sep 2013
- views: 644
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 04 Feb 2012
- views: 3989
This is a book trailer for The Corrections, a book by Jonathan Franzen that won the National Book Award in 2001. The book was also a finalist for the 2002 Pulit...
This is a book trailer for The Corrections, a book by Jonathan Franzen that won the National Book Award in 2001. The book was also a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The plot follows the Lambert family, and the mother Enid's wish to bring the family back together for one last Christmas at their home in Saint Jude. In 2005 The Corrections was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels.
wn.com/The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen
This is a book trailer for The Corrections, a book by Jonathan Franzen that won the National Book Award in 2001. The book was also a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The plot follows the Lambert family, and the mother Enid's wish to bring the family back together for one last Christmas at their home in Saint Jude. In 2005 The Corrections was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels.
- published: 04 Feb 2012
- views: 3989
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
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- Duration: 12:51
- Updated: 26 May 2014
- views: 230
Jonathan Franzen was born August 17, 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois.
He is now 54. He is the son of Irene and Earl T. Franzen
He attended Swarthmore College...
Jonathan Franzen was born August 17, 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois.
He is now 54. He is the son of Irene and Earl T. Franzen
He attended Swarthmore College and Freie Universität Berlin.
Jonathan married Valerie Cornell. They both write everyday. Then eat and read. He later divorced her in 1994.
Jonathan Franzen also wrote "The Twenty-Seventh City", "Strong Motion", and "Freedom".
Awards won.
Whiting Writers' Award, Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists, Berlin Prize, National Book Award, Salon Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections, New York Times Best Books of the Year for The Corrections, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for The Corrections), Pulitzer Prize finalist (Fiction), James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner (Fiction) for The Corrections, PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Again: for Freedom), Salon Book Award; for Freedom, New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 list , Los Angeles, Times Book Prize, MANY MORE:
This books inspiration was Franzen's own life as a Midwestern Childhood. His life in Western Springs was moved to St.Jude IOWA.
Alfred: Father
Enid: Mother
Gary: Oldest sibling
Chip:Middle sibling
Denise: Youngest Sibling
This book takes place in St. Jude Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Lithuania. Just before the year 2000.
This is when technology advances and the generations change.
This book is a strange book. It has little structured plot. The characters are introduced in their own chapter. There is so many plots you have to take notes as you read to remember what is going on. The main plot though is Enid wants one last family Christmas that used to happen. Although they never happened.
Right before Christmas→
-Chip is in Lithuania while the airport gets shut down then he runs to the border to hopefully take the next countries plane if he can survive the chaos of Lithuania.
-Gary's son gets sick and might not make Christmas. His wife wants Gary to stay. Gary's relationship depends greatly on this Christmas
-Denise gets fired and starts smoking. She can't stay long since she still needs to find a job.
-Alfred fell off a cruise ship and is severely injured.
-Enid starts using a new medicine to ease her mind of worries that might be addicting. She worries again nonetheless.
Will the Christmas ever happen?
Themes: Money doesn't make people happy. Enid wants it. Alfred saves it. Gary has it. Chip loses it. Denise earns it.
Sometimes there is no one person to blame. Look at the whole picture to judge something.
All views.
You need to read the book to fully understand the themes.
DID I LIKE it?
I don't know what my opinion is. I don't know If I fully understood the book. it can come across as very confusing. It switches settings instantly with little sign of change. I needed to reread a lot! There was a lot of talk about sex and business and stocks that I shouldn't worry about as a teenager. There was some words I wish that I didn't learn. There are references to neurology. I would say from the parts that I understood that I liked it.
Who would I recommend this to? Well I would say first off, a mature person with vast knowledge of everything. I would say advanced readers of upperclassman or college level to adults.
This book is not for the average class to read. There is more beneath the words than I can
explain.
Well. This book is not just an average book. This book won MANY awards. Why did it earn so many awards. Well.............................................
He wrote 200 pages in 2 years. He then threw out all but twenty pages. He wants it to be, and some critics agree it is the "Great American Novel."
This book should be more of a deal than it is. There was almost a movie on it. This book can describe a life of a midwestern child almost perfectly. I can relate to this book in many ways. It takes place in Iowa. IOWA! It was written before the BIG advance in technology and it predicts as kids are now (Gary's kids.)
All in all a great book. Read book with caution. Not a book just to read and multitask.
wn.com/The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen was born August 17, 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois.
He is now 54. He is the son of Irene and Earl T. Franzen
He attended Swarthmore College and Freie Universität Berlin.
Jonathan married Valerie Cornell. They both write everyday. Then eat and read. He later divorced her in 1994.
Jonathan Franzen also wrote "The Twenty-Seventh City", "Strong Motion", and "Freedom".
Awards won.
Whiting Writers' Award, Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists, Berlin Prize, National Book Award, Salon Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections, New York Times Best Books of the Year for The Corrections, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for The Corrections), Pulitzer Prize finalist (Fiction), James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner (Fiction) for The Corrections, PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Again: for Freedom), Salon Book Award; for Freedom, New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 list , Los Angeles, Times Book Prize, MANY MORE:
This books inspiration was Franzen's own life as a Midwestern Childhood. His life in Western Springs was moved to St.Jude IOWA.
Alfred: Father
Enid: Mother
Gary: Oldest sibling
Chip:Middle sibling
Denise: Youngest Sibling
This book takes place in St. Jude Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Lithuania. Just before the year 2000.
This is when technology advances and the generations change.
This book is a strange book. It has little structured plot. The characters are introduced in their own chapter. There is so many plots you have to take notes as you read to remember what is going on. The main plot though is Enid wants one last family Christmas that used to happen. Although they never happened.
Right before Christmas→
-Chip is in Lithuania while the airport gets shut down then he runs to the border to hopefully take the next countries plane if he can survive the chaos of Lithuania.
-Gary's son gets sick and might not make Christmas. His wife wants Gary to stay. Gary's relationship depends greatly on this Christmas
-Denise gets fired and starts smoking. She can't stay long since she still needs to find a job.
-Alfred fell off a cruise ship and is severely injured.
-Enid starts using a new medicine to ease her mind of worries that might be addicting. She worries again nonetheless.
Will the Christmas ever happen?
Themes: Money doesn't make people happy. Enid wants it. Alfred saves it. Gary has it. Chip loses it. Denise earns it.
Sometimes there is no one person to blame. Look at the whole picture to judge something.
All views.
You need to read the book to fully understand the themes.
DID I LIKE it?
I don't know what my opinion is. I don't know If I fully understood the book. it can come across as very confusing. It switches settings instantly with little sign of change. I needed to reread a lot! There was a lot of talk about sex and business and stocks that I shouldn't worry about as a teenager. There was some words I wish that I didn't learn. There are references to neurology. I would say from the parts that I understood that I liked it.
Who would I recommend this to? Well I would say first off, a mature person with vast knowledge of everything. I would say advanced readers of upperclassman or college level to adults.
This book is not for the average class to read. There is more beneath the words than I can
explain.
Well. This book is not just an average book. This book won MANY awards. Why did it earn so many awards. Well.............................................
He wrote 200 pages in 2 years. He then threw out all but twenty pages. He wants it to be, and some critics agree it is the "Great American Novel."
This book should be more of a deal than it is. There was almost a movie on it. This book can describe a life of a midwestern child almost perfectly. I can relate to this book in many ways. It takes place in Iowa. IOWA! It was written before the BIG advance in technology and it predicts as kids are now (Gary's kids.)
All in all a great book. Read book with caution. Not a book just to read and multitask.
- published: 26 May 2014
- views: 230
"They're the band for you": Jonathan Franzen on the Mekons
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:18
- Updated: 19 Sep 2010
- views: 13975
Clip from the upcoming documentary REVENGE OF THE MEKONS. Here, best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen describes why the Mekons provided inspiration when he was...
Clip from the upcoming documentary REVENGE OF THE MEKONS. Here, best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen describes why the Mekons provided inspiration when he was writing The Corrections.
For more information, go to http://www.mekonsmovie.com and stop by the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revenge-of-the-Mekons/158606240816590?ref=ts
wn.com/They're The Band For You Jonathan Franzen On The Mekons
Clip from the upcoming documentary REVENGE OF THE MEKONS. Here, best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen describes why the Mekons provided inspiration when he was writing The Corrections.
For more information, go to http://www.mekonsmovie.com and stop by the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Revenge-of-the-Mekons/158606240816590?ref=ts
- published: 19 Sep 2010
- views: 13975
IMAGINATION PRINCIPLE: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, and the Unlikable Character
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:35
- Updated: 12 May 2013
- views: 130
Do all protagonists need to be likable? Perhaps not in the way you would think. Let's look at Jonathan Franzen's killer 2001 novel, "The Corrections" for an exa...
Do all protagonists need to be likable? Perhaps not in the way you would think. Let's look at Jonathan Franzen's killer 2001 novel, "The Corrections" for an example.
wn.com/Imagination Principle Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, And The Unlikable Character
Do all protagonists need to be likable? Perhaps not in the way you would think. Let's look at Jonathan Franzen's killer 2001 novel, "The Corrections" for an example.
- published: 12 May 2013
- views: 130
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen--Audiobook Excerpt
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- Duration: 6:57
- Updated: 12 Apr 2012
- views: 1965
Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Jonathan Franzen's #1 bestselling novel Freedom. In his first novel since The Corrections, Franzen has given us an epic of...
Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Jonathan Franzen's #1 bestselling novel Freedom. In his first novel since The Corrections, Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Walter and Patty Berglund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
Learn more about the book Freedom at http://us.macmillan.com/freedom/JonathanFranzen
Read more about author Jonathan Franzen at http://us.macmillan.com/author/jonathanfranzen
Read about audiobook narrator David LeDoux at http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidledoux
wn.com/Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Audiobook Excerpt
Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Jonathan Franzen's #1 bestselling novel Freedom. In his first novel since The Corrections, Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Walter and Patty Berglund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
Learn more about the book Freedom at http://us.macmillan.com/freedom/JonathanFranzen
Read more about author Jonathan Franzen at http://us.macmillan.com/author/jonathanfranzen
Read about audiobook narrator David LeDoux at http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidledoux
- published: 12 Apr 2012
- views: 1965
Jonathan Franzen: 2011 Heartland Prize for Fiction
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- Duration: 13:13
- Updated: 06 Dec 2011
- views: 1431
http://chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival
events.
Beginning with his 2001 novel, The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has been celebrat...
http://chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival
events.
Beginning with his 2001 novel, The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has been celebrated as one of the most perceptive and talented chroniclers of contemporary American life. In Freedom, Franzen delves into the heart of one complicated Minnesota family. Walter and Patty Berglund's middle-aged growing pains—the messiness of love found and lost, roads taken and not—is, in the words of one critic, an "indelible portrait of our times" and earned him a nomination for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The winner of the National Book Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction for The Corrections, Franzen is also the author of The Discomfort Zone (memoir), How to Be Alone (essays), and the novels Strong Motion and The Twenty-Seventh City.
wn.com/Jonathan Franzen 2011 Heartland Prize For Fiction
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Beginning with his 2001 novel, The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has been celebrated as one of the most perceptive and talented chroniclers of contemporary American life. In Freedom, Franzen delves into the heart of one complicated Minnesota family. Walter and Patty Berglund's middle-aged growing pains—the messiness of love found and lost, roads taken and not—is, in the words of one critic, an "indelible portrait of our times" and earned him a nomination for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The winner of the National Book Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction for The Corrections, Franzen is also the author of The Discomfort Zone (memoir), How to Be Alone (essays), and the novels Strong Motion and The Twenty-Seventh City.
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Jonathan Franzen on 'Purity'
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. But she doesn’t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world – including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now o...
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Jonathan Franzen: The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club
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Find out what science fiction Jonathan Franzen was reading in Jr. High as well as some neglected writers he really thinks you should be reading.
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Find out what science fiction Jonathan Franzen was reading in Jr. High as well as some neglected writers he really thinks you should be reading.
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Jonathan Franzen on 'Purity'
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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 ana...
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. But she doesn’t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll ever have a normal life.
Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world – including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn’t understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong.
Jonathan Franzen’s Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters – Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers – and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
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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. But she doesn’t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll ever have a normal life.
Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world – including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn’t understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong.
Jonathan Franzen’s Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters – Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers – and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
Get it here: http://www.4thestate.co.uk/book/purity/
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Jonathan Franzen: Books Made Me Survive
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Jonathan Franzen talks with David Remnick - The New Yorker Festival - The New Yorker
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In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen dismantles the deception of idealism
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Talking Volumes: Kerri Miller interviews Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan Franzen interview in full - Newsnight
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Jonathan Franzen Hates Twitter, Although...
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Jonathan Franzen | Oct 27, 2015 | Appel Salon
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David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on Charlie Rose (5/1996)
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Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
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Jonathan Franzen at Book Passage
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Jonathan Franzen’s Bedtime Stories
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Jonathan Franzen on new novel "Purity"
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Jonathan Franzen & Andrew Sullivan Conversation
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Jonathan Franzen: Purity, trolls and politics
The author discusses his new novel 'Purity', his problem with agressive internet trolls an...
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Freedom, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
In which Ryan reviews "Freedom" Jonathan Franzen's fourth novel published in 2010. He also...
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Jonathan Franzen talks about his latest novel, Purity
Jonathan Franzen introduces his new novel, Purity.
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Jonathan Franzen on Author Videos & the Novel
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Jonathan Franzen - Fulbright Student to Germany, 1981
American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Prog...
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Jonathan Franzen: On Facing the Blank Page
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Jonathan Franzen: 2010 National Book Festival
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Novelist Jonathan Franzen on 'Radical Misanthropy'
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Purity, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
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Novelist Jonathan Franzen on Environmental Activism and Engagement
Novelist Jonathan Franzen talks about the way main character Walter Berglund learns how to...
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Novelist Jonathan Franzen Plays Grist's Bird Game
Novelist Jonathan Franzen plays a bird identification game with Amanda Little of Grist.org...
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Author Franzen on the plight of rare birds
Novelist Jonathan Franzen - who when he's not writing is a keen birdwatcher - has been spe...
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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - Book Review by Lily Richards, Unity Books
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Jonathan Franzen reads from The Corrections
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Jonathan Franzen: Reflections on Oprah
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The Corrections | Book Review
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The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen BOOK REVIEW
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The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen [BookReview]
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
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"They're the band for you": Jonathan Franzen on the Mekons
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IMAGINATION PRINCIPLE: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, and the Unlikable Character
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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen--Audiobook Excerpt
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Jonathan Franzen: 2011 Heartland Prize for Fiction
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Jonathan Franzen: The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club
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Jonathan Franzen on 'Purity'
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Stephen Hawking and his billionaire friends at Breakthrough gave us a glimpse into the development of a proposed exploration method this week involving nanotech spaceships, but when asked about actually finding alien life, the famed theoretical physicist admitted that he didn’t think it would be anytime soon ... (Note. The window to mission completion from announcement date is roughly 40 years.) ... [Image via Wikimedia Commons]....
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Major earthquake rocks Ecuador, kills at least 41
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QUITO. Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades, a 7.8-magnitude tremor, struck off the Pacific coast on Saturday, killing at least 41 people and causing damage near the epicenter as well as in the largest city of Guayaquil. President Rafael Correa declared a national emergency and urged the Andean nation's 16 million people to stay calm ... Authorities urged people to evacuate coastal areas for fear of rising tides ... Refinery closed. ... ....
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US to join quake relief effort in Japan; 41 dead, 11 missing
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MINAMIASO, Japan (AP) -- Eleven people remained missing Sunday in southern Japan from two powerful earthquakes that killed 41 people, as the U.S military announced it was preparing to join relief efforts and Toyota said it would suspend nearly all of its vehicle production in Japan. Thousands of rescue workers fanned out in often mountainous terrain to search for the missing ... U.S ... The U.S ... Toyota Motor Corp ... --- ... Learn more about our and ....
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UMPI Professor Kevin McCartney receives Fulbright Award (University of Maine at Presque Isle)
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(Source. University of Maine at Presque Isle) ... Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank, and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia; John Hope Franklin, noted American historian and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Riccardo Giacconi, physicist and 2002 Nobel Laureate; Amar Gopal Bose, founder, Bose Corporation; Renée Fleming, soprano; Jonathan Franzen, writer; and Daniel Libeskind, architect....
If You Have To Tell Everyone It's Satire, You're Bad At Satire
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If something is intended as satire but poorly done, satire is no get-out-of-jail-free card, something many authors -- Michel Houellebecq and Jonathan Franzen, for example -- and their admirers don’t seem to grasp ... As a mere high schooler completing an assignment to write a 500-word satirical essay in the tradition of Jonathan Swift, I turned ......
Bookmarks: News and views from the book world
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Williamson's big move. Geordie Williamson will be the new Picador publisher, taking over from Alex Craig who resigned last month. This means, of course, that The Australian newspaper will have to find a new chief literary critic ... So Coetzee is up for his 2013 book The Childhood of Jesus, while Jonathan Franzen is up for The Corrections (2001), Siri Hustvedt for What I Loved (2003) and Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things (1997). ....
The Deeper Truth of Fiction
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By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Doug McLean. Charles Bock’s novel Alice & Oliver draws on a tragic and harrowing real-life experience. the death of the author’s wife from leukemia, after chemotherapy and two bone marrow transplants, in 2011 ... Charles Bock ... ....
Hanya Yanagihara to speak in Melbourne as part of Wheeler Centre's 2016 program
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Ann Goldstein, an editor at The New Yorker and translator of the bestselling works by the enigmatic Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, will speak with author and translator Robert Dessaix; novelist and essayist Jonathan Franzen will discuss his new book, Purity, with broadcaster and Meanjin editor Jonathan Green, and playwright and screenwriter David ......
Why women will rule the world in a decade, or maybe two
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Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has declared himself a feminist and, while he doesn't use the label, Australian political commentator George Megalogenis argues that women are the future of the world ... "The next economic driver in Western countries is women's pay and equal opportunity," he says. Working on his latest books, Australia's Second Chance and Balancing Act ... Advertisement ... Jonathan Franzen ... ....
Why women will rule the world in a decade
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Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has declared himself a feminist and, while he doesn't use the label, Australian political commentator George Megalogenis argues that women are the future of the world ... "The next economic driver in Western countries is women's pay and equal opportunity," he says. Advertisement. Working on his latest books, Australia's Second Chance and Balancing Act ... Jonathan Franzen ... ....
Why women will rule the world in a decade or two
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Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has declared himself a feminist and, while he doesn't use the label, Australian political commentator George Megalogenis argues that women are the future of the world ... "The next economic driver in Western countries is women's pay and equal opportunity," he says. Working on his latest books, Australia's Second Chance and Balancing Act ... Advertisement ... Jonathan Franzen ... ....
Sydney Writers festival 2016 line-up: Gloria Steinem, Jonathan Franzen, Kate Tempest
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@m_onicatan. Feminist powerhouse Gloria Steinem will grace Australian shores in May for the Sydney Writers festival, where she will be joined by other literary bigwigs, including novelist Jonathan Franzen, 2015 Booker Prize winner Marlon James, author of A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara and beat poet Kate Tempest. Related. Gloria Steinem. ‘Do what you love so much you forget what time it is’ ... Jonathan Franzen on Freedom - books podcast ... ....
Matthew Weiner, Louis CK, Anderson Cooper Among Upcoming ‘Jeopardy’ Players
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“Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, comedian Louis C.K. and CNN host Anderson Cooper are among the players slated to compete on “Jeopardy’s” upcoming Power Players Week ... Other contestants include former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, U.S. Senator Al Franken and “Purity” author Jonathan Franzen ... All other contestants are guaranteed at least $10,000. Also Read ... Jonathan Franzen ... S.E ... Jonathan Capehart....
TV Query: Is Louis C.K. really going to be a contestant on ‘Jeopardy’?
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Is it true that Louis C.K., Matthew Weiner, Jonathan Franzen and Sen ... Cupp, political analyst David Gregory, Washington Post journalist Jonathan Capehart, ABC legal correspondent Sunny Hostin, former MSNBC host and academic Melissa Harris-Perry, ......
Louis C.K., Matthew Weiner, Al Franken and Jonathan Franzen to appear on 'Jeopardy!'
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Louis C.K., Matthew Weiner, Jonathan Franzen and Sen. Al Franken will appear on�"Jeopardy!". No, this isn't the setup for an "SNL" skit. The Emmy-winning comedian, creator of "Mad Men," author of "The Corrections" and junior senator from the great state of Minnesota�are among the newsmakers and... ....
Louis C.K, Jonathan Franzen, and Matthew Weiner Are Competing on Jeopardy, Like One of Those ...
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Louis C.K., novelist Jonathan Franzen, and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner are just some of the quotable notables going head-to-head on Jeopardy for the show's Power Players week. The tournament, which is set to air in May, is kind of like Celebrity Jeopardy, except with questions that are more difficult ... More » ... ....
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