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For those of you who would like to see and hear some authors describe their works and what makes them tick. I thought that I would open up a folder to add threads which pertain to writers who folks here may be interested in. I will let them explain.

Here is a set of threads which will be dedicated to listening to authors describe their works, themselves, what makes them tick, books they care about and/or made a difference in their lives etc. For these threads, I will try to find video presentations and watchable interviews.

This thread is dedicated to authors whose last name begins with F.

There is no self promotion on any of these threads.

JONATHAN FRANZEN

Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by FSG. His fourth novel, Freedom, will be published in the fall of 2010. (in fact it is out now)

Franzen's other honors include a 1988 Whiting Writers' Award, Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996), the Salon Book Award (2001), the New York Times Best Books of the Year (2001), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2002).

SOURCE: GOODREADS

VIDEO:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

WRITTEN:

http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/s...

SOURCE: BARNES AND NOBLE (VIDEO)



by Jonathan Franzen

Other books by Franzen:


all by Jonathan Franzen

BOOKS FRANZEN RECOMMENDS AND AUTHORS:

by Michael Lewis

by Philip Weinstein

by Christina Stead

by Halldór Laxness

by Jane Smiley

by John Steinbeck

by John Steinbeck

by Kenzaburō Ōe

SOME OTHER FAVORITE AUTHORS: (FRANZEN'S PICKS)

Joseph Conrad

William Faulkner

James Joyce

Jane Austin (no photo)

Daniel Defoe

Proust Marcel (no photo)

Samuel Richardson

Balzac (no photo)

Stendahl (no photo)

William Faulkner

A really good article on him in Vogue:

Another article about Franzen:

Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career �� people are starting to approve'

For years, he sat in this bare office, blocking out the world with earplugs �� and nothing came. So how did Jonathan Franzen end up writing the Great American Novel, on the cover of Time magazine and read by Barack Obama on holiday? Ed Pilkington asks him.