Jonathan Franzen News
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No one can complain that we haven’t had enough stories about politics.
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In its 10th year, Brazil's biggest literary festival, held in Paraty on the coast, attracted 25,000 visitors, nearly as many people as live in the picturesque colonial town. They came for the celebrity authors and films, sure, but mostly for an intimacy with books.
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Walter and Patty Berglund have problems, big problems. He’s frustrated. She’s depressed. Their son, a high-school junior, has just moved in with the trashy couple next door. (He’s sleeping with their daughter.)
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Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” was too big to lug around to the New York Public Library’s gala last night. So Ian McEwan’s slim “On Chesil Beach” stayed hidden under a reporter’s notepad until McEwan himself was spotted.
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Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides was nursing his second Manhattan of the evening -- “It’s my book- tour drink of choice” -- while author Jonathan Franzen enjoyed the city’s silhouette.
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This was a week of St. Tropez, man-caves, hot novelists, tough bankers and famous producer granddaughters. Here are some highlights you might have missed or still remember.
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Rowan Somerville won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award , the U.K.’s “most dreaded literary prize,” for a scene in which a nipple is likened to the upturned “nose of the loveliest nocturnal animal, sniffing in the night.”
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This year’s National Book Award finalists don’t include Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of the widely praised, Oprah’s Book Club-endorsed novel, “Freedom.”
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Our favorite works of fiction this year will take you from a trading colony in 19th- century Japan to a boys school in present-day Dublin.
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Stephen A. Schwarzman , in a royal- blue tie that matched his wife’s dress, dined on lobster salad last night at the New York Public Library’s Centennial Gala.
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