Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Why Bother?", originally published as "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels", is a literary essay by American novelist Jonathan Franzen ...
Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum.In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book," Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distracting mass culture: the question of how to be alone."
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award , was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize , and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award .
His new novel, 'Crossroads,' is extraordinary, immersive, even fun. But it makes you wonder what Franzen might accomplish if more were at stake
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Why Bother? may refer to: "Why Bother?" (essay), 1996 essay by American novelist Jonathan Franzen "Why Bother?" (song), 1996 song from Weezer's album Pinkerton;
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...