Jonathan Franzen is profiled in the New York Times, internet responds accordingly
Did you hear? Did you see? The New York Times Magazine ran a profile of Jonathan Franzen written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner! Just yesterday! The piece was presumably conceived as a sort… Read more »
Coalition of writers sends letter to colleagues imprisoned in Turkey
A coalition of 150 writers, including Nobel laureates, former prisoners of conscience, and and many more, has sent a letter of support to colleagues imprisoned in Turkey via PEN International. Turkey, as… Read more »
Franzen on Jeopardy! is for the birds
When Jonathan Franzen woke up this past Monday he’d already been living with his nightmare-come-true for weeks. Back in April, he’d taped an episode of Jeopardy! in Washington, DC, featuring… Read more »
“What I’d most like to get out of this is not to have to live in shame,” or, Jonathan Franzen does Jeopardy
What is—Jeopardy Power Players? Ah, Gentle Reader—a good answer in the form of a question. We would also have accepted: What is Jonathan Franzen on prime time TV? As to how this… Read more »
Amy Collier wouldn’t read Purity if you paid her…PSYCH!
For the past year, Amy Collier has been exclusively reading books written by women. Inspired by the fruits and frustrations of her investigation into the literary canon, she founded an online… Read more »
Author rewrites debut novel, twenty years after it was published
The publishing industry is no stranger to sequels and relaunches and other brand-fortifying tricks perfected by Hollywood. In the last couple of years, Sebastian Faulks published a new book based… Read more »
Scratch The Corrections—Jonathan Franzen’s Purity to be adapted for TV
Only five months after Purity was published, Jonathan Franzen may reignite the vitriol of his critics by collaborating on a major television adaptation of his widely praised and widely maligned… Read more »
The greatest TV show ever made about book publishing: Part 2
In our previous installment, I discussed how the portrayal of book publishing in The Affair, Showtime’s award-winning drama series, is both laughably inaccurate and admirably surreal. This time, we delve into the… Read more »
A reading list for Rory Gilmore
The rumours had been raging all summer but it was only a couple of weeks ago that Netflix confirmed it would be reuniting the cast of Gilmore Girls for four… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: This column is embargoed until today
Topics discussed: last week’s column, next week’s column, the week after next week’s column, infinite recursiveness, Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, Gawker, book reviews, embargoes, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump,… Read more »