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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Book Info:

• Amazon.com
• LibraryThing
• The London newspaper The Guardian has a monthly book club, and they did The Corrections in October 2010:
• Guardian book club: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (10/15/10) 
• Week one: comedy (10/16/10)
• Jonathan Franzen meets the Guardian book club (podcast) (10/18/10) 
• The novelist explains to Professor John Mullan why the third person is a wonderful thing and how 'a tour-de-force impulse' led him to turn five short novels into The Corrections 
• Week two: dialogue (10/23/10)
• Week three: Jonathan Franzen on writing The Corrections (10/30/10)
• Week four: readers' responses (11/6/10)

Author Info:

• More about Jonathan Franzen (from The Guardian) 
• Jonathan Franzen: Great American Novelist (from Time magazine, 8/12/10) 
• Jonathan Franzen video from BigThink.com (no date given):
• Jonathan Franzen Reads
• Do you regret your run-in with Oprah?
• Why do you find ignorance interesting?
• Jonathan Franzen on Memory and Memoir
• Jonathan Franzen On Privacy
• How do you write?
• Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
• Jonathan Franzen on Underappreciated Books
• Which writers inform your work?
• Jonathan Franzen's Desert Island Reading 
• Jonathan Franzen on China's Growth
• What accounts for China's disregard of nature?
• What was your experience of China?
• Jonathan Franzen on Midwestern Values
• The Midwestern Writer 

Other Info:

• 'Oprah' Gaffe by Franzen Draws Ire and Sales (from New York Times, 10/29/01) 

   

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