“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 »
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 »