- 12/10/13 /
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The Year in Entertainment Lightning Rods: Scandals, Stories, Beefs, and Twerking
Miley, Kanye, Candy Crush, Girls' Patrick Wilson episode: These are the things that got people all wound up in 2013.
Jonathan Franzen
- 10/22/13 /
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Justin Long on A Case of You, Playing a Walrus in Tusk, and Hater Jonathan Franzen
"He calls me insufferably smug ... Which I think is a little heavy-handed."
- 10/8/13 /
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Everything Jonathan Franzen Currently Hates
The complete list of digruntlement, as plucked from his footnotes in The Kraus Project.
- 9/14/13 /
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Jonathan Franzen Still Doesn’t Like the Internet
Or your MacBook Air.
- 12/20/12 /
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Jonathan Franzen Is ‘Out of the Blurb Business’
Is there a reason to write novels anymore?
- 5/27/12 /
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Sunday Reads: Jonathan Franzen, D’Angelo, and Moonrise Kingdom Prep
Long reads for your long weekend.
- 3/9/12 /
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Bret Easton Ellis Is Very Team Franzen
"Man-up and deal with it, guys."
- 3/7/12 /
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Why Does Jonathan Franzen Hate Twitter So Much?
"Twitter stands for everything I oppose."
- 11/8/11 /
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Jonathan Franzen on the TV Version of The Corrections
"It'll be like no TV I've ever seen."
- 11/3/11 /
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HBO’s The Corrections Is Officially Official
The pilot is under way.
- 10/18/11 /
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Dianne Wiest, Chris Cooper Boarding The Corrections
They'll star in HBO's adaptation of the Jonathan Franzen novel.
- 10/8/11 /
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Did David Foster Wallace Fudge That Cruise Piece?
So said Franzen at 'The New Yorker' Festival.
- 10/1/11 /
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The Corrections TV Deal Confirmed
HBO to adapt Jonathan Franzen's 2001 novel.
- 5/11/11 /
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A Visit From the Goon Squad Author Jennifer Egan on Reaping Awards and Dodging Literary Feuds
An apology to Jennifer Weiner for Egan's chick-lit dismissal: "The person who’s criticizing should know what they’re saying and whom they’re criticizing. I was just vague on my facts."
- 4/21/11 /
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Jonathan Franzen Keeps Weed in His Freezer
We know because Elif Batuman asked him.
- 4/11/11 /
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Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace
"It was still hard not to feel wounded by the part of him that had chose the adulation of strangers over the love of the people closest to him."
- 12/9/10 /
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The Vulture Gift Guide
Rounding up gifts for everyone on your list, from the gadget junkies to Sondheim fanatics to wannabe Mad Men.
- 12/7/10 /
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Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Hash It Out
"I spoke in very long sentences, and little pieces of those sentences sounded bad, and your feelings were probably understandably hurt, and next thing we knew it had become this thing."
- 10/14/10 /
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Jonathan Franzen’s National Book Award Snub Should Rock No One’s Bookcase
Awards, notoriously, mean almost nothing — particularly in literature.
- 10/13/10 /
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Jonathan Franzen Won’t Be Getting a National Book Award
'Freedom' wasn't nominated for the prize.
- 10/6/10 /
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Guy Who Stole Franzen’s Glasses Was Just Bored
And a party crasher.
- 10/5/10 /
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Hear Three Songs That Make Jonathan Franzen Cry
The 'Freedom' author isn't brought to tears by R.E.M. and Eric Clapton like the average man.
- 10/4/10 /
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Thieves Steal Glasses Right Off Jonathan Franzen’s Face
Someone really wanted a piece of Franzen
- 10/1/10 /
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Freedom: Recalled in the U.K.!
80,000 copies of Jonathan Franzen's novel contained errors.
- 9/16/10 /
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Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, an Oprah Book Club Selection?
Franzen and Oprah kiss and make up.