Jonathan Franzen articles over last 30 days

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2013/06/19 07:09
2013/06/19 07:09
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Despite the dominance of works of fiction and poetry included on this and previous longlists, writers of non-fiction have claimed the award since its launch in 2008. Professor Ian Sansom, Chairman of...
2013/06/19 07:09
2013/06/19 07:09
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2013/06/18 15:03
2013/06/18 15:03
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. VICE magazine has a reputation for using provocative content to draw an audience — Dennis Rodman's North Korean tour...
2013/06/17 14:11
2013/06/17 14:11
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See full coverage Though he's lived in New York City since the early 1990s, after decades of a famously fugitive existence in and out of America, Thomas Pynchon now seems, at last , to have moved...
2013/06/15 12:11
2013/06/15 12:11
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In case you missed it, earlier this week, the novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote a letter to the New York Times in which he rebutted Frank Bruni’s column “Sexism’s Puzzling Stamina.” In publishing a...
2013/06/14 20:25
2013/06/14 20:25
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Here’s some advice for bibliophiles with teetering piles of books and not enough hours in the day: don’t read them. Instead, feed the books into a computer program and make graphs, maps and charts: it...
2013/06/13 04:43
2013/06/13 04:43
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Infernoby Dan BrownDoubleday, 2013 Let me get one thing out of the way: Inferno, Dan Brown’s newest novel, is not good. By any standard, scale, or specification, this is a bad book. In fact, the only...
2013/06/12 15:39
2013/06/12 15:39
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NEW YORK (AP) — Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who testified this week at a trial over alleged price-fixing of e-books, was no one's idea of a friendly witness. Of the five publishers the U.S. Justice...
2013/06/11 22:33
2013/06/11 22:33
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NEW YORK (AP) - Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who testified this week at a trial over alleged price-fixing of e-books, was no one's idea of a friendly witness. Of the five publishers the U.S. Justice...
2013/06/11 13:04
2013/06/11 13:04
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The novelist Tao Lin, because he is young, narcissistic and computer literate, gets the "voice of Generation Y" treatment a lot. It's a safe way of pinning down the uncontainable paradox that is Tao...
2013/06/10 02:45
2013/06/10 02:45
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At 65, still twirling around onstage with Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks has some regrets (Klonopin) but very few fears. Let her show her devotees the way. By Jada YuanMust Cats Die So Birds Can...
2013/06/05 19:23
2013/06/05 19:23
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Video: AM Homes reads an extract from her award-winning novel, May We Be Forgiven. The scope of the prize-winning novel knows no bounds, taking in murder, manslaughter and adultery within the first...
2013/05/26 20:30
2013/05/26 20:30
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In “Pacific,” Iowa native Tom Drury returns to the fictional world where he first made his name. This slim but rich novel is a welcome return to the familiar landscape of Grouse County. It’s also a...
2013/05/25 20:16
2013/05/25 20:16
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Love story anchored in angkor shines light on pastJohn Shors' historical novel interprets events that shook the ancient Khmer empire in the tumultuous 12th century; the struggle of Prince Jayavar to...
2013/05/24 12:03
2013/05/24 12:03
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who will hear the Justice Department's e-book price fixing case against Apple,...
2013/05/23 08:39
2013/05/23 08:39
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The influential American writer accepted the £60,000 honour, which is presented every two years to a living, non-UK author for a body of work published in English, at a ceremony held at the Victoria...
2013/05/23 07:10
2013/05/23 07:10
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Her writing style is hard to categorise but it has been described as witty, poetic and minimalist. One of her most recent works is a 1,600-word short story that will appear in this Saturday's Daily...
2013/05/19 08:20
2013/05/19 08:20
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Twenty-five years after pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly unleashed Prozac on the red-braced 80s, SSRIs are still the world's most popular antidepressants. They are swallowed by more than 40 million...
2013/05/16 20:26
2013/05/16 20:26
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This critical double standard—that tormented, foul-mouthed, or perverse male characters are celebrated, while their female counterparts are primly dismissed as unlikeable—has been pointed out many...