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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.
How to Be Alone may refer to: in literature: How to Be Alone, a 2002 book by Jonathan Franzen; How to Be Alone, a 2014 book by Sara Maitland; How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't, a 2018 book by Lane Moore "How to be alone", a 2016 poem by Donika Kelly; in other media: How to Be Alone, a 2016 short film
Freedom is a 2010 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen.It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Freedom received general acclaim from book critics, was ranked one of the best books of 2010 by several publications, [1] [2] and called by some critics the "Great American Novel". [3]
Despite the furore, Franzen is simply being pragmatic: confront the brutal facts but remain hopeful. Why Jonathan Franzen was right about how we should approach the climate crisis Skip to main content
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One suggested that Jonathan Franzen was alone in disliking being challenged by books, and that most readers enjoy trying difficult books, for they are able to mentally enrich the reader. The theme of Gaddis-versus-Franzen is part of the James Reiss poem "The Novel". [ 9 ]
In a review of How to Be Alone for The A.V. Club, Andy Battaglia called Franzen's conclusions "a lot more heartening than might be expected", and found that the collection of essays was made far more interesting by both Franzen's tone of anxiety, as well as the controversies surrounding The Corrections being selected for Oprah's Book Club. [4]