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06/01/12 You hate me! You really hate me! Source: The Globe and Mail - Toronto ON - Canada It's tempting, really tempting, to call Jonathan Franzen the Sally Field of American letters.
05/30/12 REVIEW: Farther away Source: Macleans Jonathan Franzen is quite likely the most celebrated and least liked author in America today.
05/27/12 Sunday Reads: Jonathan Franzen, D'Angelo, and Moonrise... Source: Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine Your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday (or in this case, Tuesday) brings a new deluge of things you will want to read.
05/25/12 Jonathan Franzen and the Problem of Sympathy in... Source: PopMatters "To consider [Edith Wharton] and her work is to confront the problem of sympathy. Privilege like hers isn't easy to like; it puts her at a moral disadvantage," novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote in the February 2012 anniversary Issue of The New Yorker.
05/16/12 Book Notes - Amy Waldman "The Submission" Source: Largehearted Boy In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Background on jonathan franzen

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.

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