The Latest from Big Think

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Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Corrections handled […]
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Franzen discusses fiction, non-fiction and the need to draw the distinction.
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Jonathan Franzen on his book, Imperial Bedroom.
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Franzen's literary touchstones, decades in, decades out.
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Why not take the opportunity to learn a language?
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Jonathan Franzen discusses the potential for China's economic collapse.
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China made America feel very old and tired, Franzen says.
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Jonathan Franzen on growing up in the Midwest in the 1970s.
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Innocence prolonged, innocence lost.