Mar 18 2016
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No justice, no peace: Kickstarter has suspended one entrepreneurial woman’s crowdfunding campaign to receive fair…
Mar 15 2016
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There are plenty of us who’ve donated our own precious free time to read the works of Jonathan Franzen—though…
Feb 15 2016
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Currently being shopped around to various TV networks: an adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s Purity, starring none…
Sep 2 2015
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Aug 31 2015
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Purity starts out, as Jonathan Franzen’s books do, with a word used unusually well, a little signal that the author…
Aug 21 2015
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Hold onto your little clitorises of discernment, you stuffy literary cunts: the bad boy of books (and bird…
Jul 15 2015
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Early Wednesday, n+1, beloved magazine of the internet intelligentsia, published novelist Nell Zink’s mocking and…
May 13 2015
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Two brave and sensual members of Jezebel staff (Kelly Faircloth and I, hello!) have come to Dallas to rub elbows…
May 12 2015
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On Monday, May 11, an elite few began receiving advanced copies of Purity, the latest release from Great Male…
Apr 3 2015
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When he isn’t sharing his thoughts about the Internet with the Internet, bestselling author Jonathan Franzen is a…
Feb 13 2015
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Serious Male Novelist Jonathan Franzen would like you to know he still has zero respect for Jennifer Weiner, a…
Jun 14 2013
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Jonathan Franzen, "the author [who] is the writer," would like you to know that sexism has been more or less…
Mar 14 2011
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Accomplished novelist Jennifer Egan won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her fascinating, innovative book A…
Sep 25 2010
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"The categories by which we value fiction are skewed male, and this creates a very destructive disconnect between…
Sep 14 2010
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The kerfuffle over Jonathan Franzen's Freedom prompts one critic to ask, "Can a Woman Be a 'Great American…
Aug 26 2010
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A kerfuffle over Jonathan Franzen's new book has exposed a controversy in the literary world: to hear some writers…