Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Earl Franzenis an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, 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 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedomgarnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 August 1959
CountryUnited States of America
I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.
I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.
For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.
It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.
The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.
I admire your capacity for admiring.
The writer’s life is a life of revisions.