Jonathan franzen

Twenty years after his era-defining masterpiece, The Corrections, the author’s latest novel is the first in a trilogy about the travails of a white middle-class family in the American Midwest

Jeffrey Eugenides insists his new novel is not a roman à clef. But it might have been: The writers of his generation had youths tangled enough for ten novels.

The internet has turned on him, his book sales are down and the TV adaptation of his last novel has stalled. But he wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

Walter and Patty Berglund were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hill—the first college grads to buy a house on Barrier Street since the old h...

In 2010, inspired to Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing, The Guardian asked some of the world’s most respected writers to share their best tips for writing fiction. Here’s the list American novelist and essayist Jonathan…

Read 1,021 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays t…

This is Mr. Franzen’s most fleet-footed, least self-conscious and most intimate novel yet.

The author of The Corrections and the new novel Purity likens writing to losing himself in a dream. "When it's really going well ... you're in a fantasy land and feeling no pain," he says.

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