Web editor Lizzy Acker does not hate Jonathan Franzen, but dislikes him. Arts and Culture editor Martin Cizmar does not love Jonathan Franzen, but likes him. Both read his new Big Important Book, ...

The book, titled Purity, promises an expansive sprawl and familiar themes, but also a few stylistic experiments. Meanwhile, Texas gears up for a... The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the ...

Today in books and publishing: the flawed logic behind Jonathan Franzen's Twitter unease, another Next Harry Potter is crowned, and Michelle Obama's gardening book is now coming out May 29. Michelle ...

“I do fear that it’s going to be very hard to make the world work if there’s no permanence like that. That kind of radical contingency is not compatible with a system of justice or responsible ...

Jonathan Franzen's last novel, The Corrections, was published on Sept. 1, 2001. A few weeks after that, American life was no longer the thing he'd captured so vividly in his book. It's taken Franzen ...

Jonathan Franzen is also the author of The Corrections: A Novel, and The Discomfort Zone, a memoir. He is pictured above at The New Yorker Festival Fiction Night in New York City in 2009. In an ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" is among The New York Times' 10 best books of the year. It's likely to be on almost everyone's list ...

Accomplished novelist Jennifer Egan won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her fascinating, innovative book A Visit From the Goon Squad. But one newspaper seemed more concerned with who didn’t ...

Today in books and publishing: Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa lands a book deal, HBO is taking Jonathan Franzen birding, chefs continue to distance themselves from the ghosts of ...

The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot. By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A.