Sandy Hates Books: Jonathan Franzen Reads At Powerhouse Arena Hurricane ...
NEW YORK -- Jonathan Franzen gave a reading. With an ordinary author, that would be pretty unremarkable. With the notoriously prickly, Twitter-hating author of the novel Freedom, it was cause for hyperbole.www.huffingtonpost.com
Jonathan Franzen's 'House For Sale' Becomes A Quirky Play
NEW YORK -- Once you get past the challenging beginning of the Transport Group's otherwise enjoyable new work based on Jonathan Franzen's quirky essay, "House For Sale," you can settle in for an eccentric and fun theatrical presentation. Daniel Fish ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Transport Group to Host Discussion With HOUSE FOR SALE's Jonathan ...
Transport Group, the Drama Desk and OBIE award-winning theatre company, will host New York Times best-selling and National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Franzen following the 7PM performance of House for Sale, by Franzen, adapted for the ...offbroadway.broadwayworld.com
Attenberg's domestic tragedy
Jami Attenberg's family tragedy arrives bearing the imprimatur of Jonathan Franzen, who has praised the author's "sympathy" and "artistry.articles.chicagotribune.com
A Taste of Franzen
Sage Chapel seemed to be both an appropriate and inappropriate place to host a reading by writer Jonathan Franzen. With seven books, a National Book Award for his novel The Corrections, numerous essays to The New Yorker magazine and a ...www.cornellsun.com
Singapore, a Nation Without Feeling
Freedom: A Novel. By Jonathan Franzen $14.00. Liberalism for a New Century. E.J. Dionne $13.57. Jr. Hoodie. $35. more items · Ear to the Ground.www.truthdig.com
Bright idea: Conor Oberst to play solo show at Warner
There's a scene in Jonathan Franzen's epic novel "Freedom" in which two of the story's primary characters, Walter Berglund and Richard Katz, venture to the 9:30 Club to catch a young Conor Oberst and his band, Bright Eyes.washingtonexaminer.com
Reading "Freedom"
Monday, November 12, 2012. I recently finished Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed novel "Freedom," about a year after everybody else read it.www.dailygazette.com
2012 Whiting Award winners announced
Past recipients include Jeffrey Eugenides, Tony Kushner, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Mark Doty, Colson Whitehead, C.D.www.latimes.com
Mean Streak
The stone was Don DeLillo, novelist and elder of postmodernism, and the designated bleeder for the evening was Jonathan Franzen, novelist and acolyte of Don DeLillo. Watching Franzen try to draw out DeLillo on the "meaning" of his work on a pre-Sandy ...www.artforum.com
Review: 'House For Sale' is quirky comedy
NEW YORK (AP) - Once you get past the challenging beginning of the Transport Group's otherwise enjoyable new work based on Jonathan Franzen's quirky essay, "House For Sale," you can settle in for an eccentric and fun theatrical presentation.www.google.com
A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books
You certainly can't do with one what David Foster Wallace did when signing a copy of one of his books for his friend Jonathan Franzen. According to Mr. Franzen, Wallace traced "an outline of an erection so huge that it ran off the page, annotated with ...www.nytimes.com
Munro's 'Dear Life' explores deep ground
In 2004, Jonathan Franzen suggested she might be "the best fiction writer now working in North America." In his introduction to the 2012 edition of "The Best American Short Stories," Tom Perrotta states that she "looms over this year's collection" as ...www.jsonline.com
Munrovian women
She is "the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years" (The Atlantic), "the best fiction writer now working in North America" (Jonathan Franzen in The New York Times). Her stories make you remember "why you eat, read, make love, whatever ...articles.chicagotribune.com
Presenting An Essay On a Stage
Based on a 2006 essay by novelist Jonathan Franzen, it's not quite a play, but it's not quite a reading, either. "It's a challenge when you're trying to convey to an audience something they've never seen before," said Jack Cummings III, the artistic ...online.wsj.com
House For Sale
The program for Transport Group's premiere production of director Daniel Fish's stage adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's essay, House For Sale, tells us that every performance is different, because each actor has apparently memorized the entire ninety ...broadwayworld.com
Things To Do: Nov 13
After being heavily referenced in the novel Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, this obscure Greek film from 1956 has resurfaced. It follows a timid little man who realises he possesses an uncanny similarity in appearance with a renowned serial killer ...www.todayonline.com
Jonathan Franzen, un escritor contra Twitter
El novelista estadounidense Jonathan Franzen, que acaba de publicar un volumen de ensayos, "Más afuera", abominó en declaraciones a la prensa hispanoamericana de las redes sociales (en especial de Twitter) y se declaró tranquilo cuando supo que en ...www.rionegro.com.ar
Goodbye, Transgression: Philip Roth retires his literary libido
The most prominent blurb on the back of Jonathan Franzen's new essay collection Farther Away is the one that reads: "There are about twenty great American novelists in the generations that follow me.dailymaverick.co.za
May We Be Forgiven AM Homes
This evisceration of family togetherness is a narrative dead end; the author of The Safety Of Objects and Music For Torching leaves no one to root for, and with authors from John Cheever to Jonathan Franzen occupying this territory, there's hardly any ...www.avclub.com
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