Jonathan Franzen
Patty Berglund Breaks Down (Twice)
The third inner-crisis moment in our series happens to be the first of several that […]
Walter Berglund Breaks Down
The second in a series of three stirring crisis moments in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. This […]
Joey Berglund Breaks Down
The powerful bottoming-out moment of young Joey Berglund, one of the protagonists in Jonathan Franzen’s […]
Brooks on Franzen, Tolstoy, and Quiet Desperation
Having just cracked Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, I find myself enjoying it immensely. The characterizations are […]
Jonathan Franzen on Growth
Pretty phenomenal soundbite from the Freedom author, being interviewed on NPR’s Marketplace: “We have this […]
Another Week Ends: Franzen’s Freedom, Strippers at Church, H …
1. The reviews for Freedom, Jonathan Franzen’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2001’s The Corrections, are in, […]