Jonathan Franzen

God must barge in and interrupt our lives.

Evil Everywhere, Franzen’s Crossroads, Self-Objectification, Cleansing a Bookstore, and Rick Steves Goes to Westeros.

It was the closest thing to hell I’ve experienced: my whole body hurt. A dull […]

Been a while since we’ve talked about this, or heard from this guy. So here […]

Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Purity, came out last week, and although it temporarily cost me […]

Back in March, my Dad took a week away from work, and we spent spring […]

An essay in last week’s NYTimes written by Paul Elie grabbed my attention, prodded me […]

Piggybacking off of Ethan’s wonderful post on The Art of Fielding, here are two phenomenal quotes […]

Filling in for DZ this week as the Mockingbird Conference is now in full swing! […]

I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of author Jonathan Franzen’s recent interviews. He not […]

So what is it about Kenyon College that inspires such great commencement speeches?! Maybe it’s […]

An absolute must-read from the April 18th issue of The New Yorker, Jonathan Franzen’s devastating […]