In Jonathan Franzen's new novel, "Purity," there is sex, infidelity, murder, lies -- and humor. "I think of myself as a funny writer. Not everyone sees it that way, but people making mistakes are ...

Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace“It was still hard not to feel wounded by the part of him that had chose the adulation of strangers over the love of the people closest to him.” Jonathan ...

An anecdote: Jonathan Franzen was at a party one night for the release of his novel "Freedom" and was enjoying himself. When two men approached him, one snatched his glasses off of his face and the ...

While promoting his new novel, 'Purity,' the author also revealed he considered adopting an Iraqi orphan in order to understand young people. By THR Staff Jonathan Franzen - H 2014 “I’m not a sexist,” ...

How do you get people to look up from their phone screens and computers and get them to care about the environment? One good way is simply to expose them to the beauty of birds, the novelist and ...

“It cured me of my anger at young people,” Mr. Franzen said. Not surprisingly, this anecdote and its whiff of white savior complex aroused a lot of anger on Twitter, with many commenters instantly ...

Exactly 100 years ago Saturday, the U.S. government passed a groundbreaking law to protect migratory birds that fly across the Atlantic. To mark the anniversary, National Geographic magazine helped ...

Let’s take a trip back to the beginning of the millennium. It’s fall of 2001. Jonathan Franzen’s just released a new novel, The Corrections. And it’s getting some buzz—enough buzz that Oprah herself ...

I'm almost starting to feel bad for Jonathan Franzen: It seems like every time he's interviewed, he says something so deeply tone-deaf, I want someone to crowdfund a new publicist for him. Then I ...

“It’s like watching someone commit suicide!” one well-known agent says, referring, of course, to the most grievous literary crime since Martin Amis switched agents: Jonathan Franzen’s snubbing of ...

Few American writers regularly earn as much conversation as Jonathan Franzen. When advance copies of the 62-year-old’s new novel, Crossroads, began making the rounds, literary Twitter fixated on a bit ...

Jonathan Franzen, wearing a colorful patterned shirt, blue jeans and dusty boots, laughed at the burst of applause that greeted him and his interviewer, Héctor Tobar, as they walked onto the stage. On ...