Jonathan Franzen hates the Internet: Pens an oversharing.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of THE TWENTY- SEVENTH, STRONG MOTION and THE CORRECTIONS. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in the NEW YORKER and HARPER'S, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by GRANTA and the NEW YORKER. He lives in New York City.
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Via Galleycat:. Jonathan Franzen, known gossip, seems to be on a quick trip toward Old Mansville, where he will retire to a rocking horse and only do things the hard way, and condemn all the young people for their use of automobiles and dialing telephones.He hates eBooks!He hates sex!And he hates the way you whippersnappers are always boiling your thoughts down to 140 characters.
In his essay, Franzen compares Twitter to cigarettes. This is inaccurate. Twitter is like doing cut-rate cocaine at a boring party where a lot of the guests dislike you. (As I said, I lived in San.
Jonathan Franzen: It takes pressure off the novels. I can write discursively about ideas without having to load all of that onto a fictional story. I think the only reason an author should ever put a personal opinion in a novel is to try to talk himself or herself out of it. Otherwise, who exactly are you ranting at? I think of the reader as my friend, not as some clueless person who needs to.
Jonathan Franzen takes a Lindblad National Geographic expedition to Antarctica, South Georgia island, and the Falklands—before climate change destroys them.
When The Corrections was published in the fall of 2001, Jonathan Franzen was probably better known for his nonfiction than for the two novels he had already published. In an essay he wrote for Harper's in 1996, Franzen lamented the declining cultural authority of the American novel and described his personal search for reasons to persist as a fiction writer.