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With his third novel, Franzen has admirably succeeded in exploring personal dramas while offering a striking picture of American culture. These ambitions make The Corrections a complex and sophisticated work, but Franzen’s skill is such the novel is a charming and touching reading experience as well. The...
At the time, Franzen was working on a long novel not so different from his earlier ones, full of polemical subplots involving anarchists in Philadelphia, the prison system and Wall Street. He threw away nearly all of it. "The big socially significant characters were not coming alive," he says. Working...
Franzen's literary heroes are the masters of the paranoid, postmodern novel--William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo--writers who spin huge plots full of manic undertakings and dense riffs on civilization and its discontents. The book he put aside to write The Corrections was cut from that cloth. "It...
Alfred L. Brophy is a professor of law at the University of Alabama. His book Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921—Race, Reparations, Reconciliation will be published by Oxford University Press in November.
When it comes to reviewing, if you want erudition, lucidity and fine judgment, read George Bernard Shaw on classical music or Alfred Kazin on books. But for sheer pinwheeling, exclamation-pointed opinion, there is no beating the regular folk who have popped up all over the Internet. Everywhere in cyberspace...