In advance of his long-awaited novel Purity, author Jonathan Franzen is being criticized following an interview he gave with Weekend magazine in the United Kingdom. But what people seem to be ...

In an interview with the Guardian’s Weekend magazine—the full text of which will be released Saturday—Jonathan Franzen told one of the most true-to-type stories in the history of Jonathan Franzen: He ...

Writers Jennifer Weiner and Jonathan Franzen have had a longstanding rivalry, dating back to when Weiner coined the term “Franzenfreude” to summarize her frustration with the endless critical praise ...

Jonathan Franzen is both one of our greatest contemporary American novelists and our most irritating public figures, prone to beefing with female novelists, bloviating about the hazards of the ...

The Queen of Daytime and the Great American Novelist are set to make nice. Booksellers who have seen the book say that Oprah Winfrey, 56, will select Jonathan Franzen‘s latest novel, Freedom, for her ...

Jonathan Franzen may be asking you to borrow a couple of bucks soon. In an interview with the Financial Times, Franzen said he is a "poor person who has money." The average yearly income for a U.S.

The Guardian slapped a headline on its website Friday morning that read, “Jonathan Franzen considered adopting Iraqi orphan to figure out young people.” Even though Franzen, the prize-winning and ...