Jonathan Franzen and the World Trade Center — This week, two stories from the World Trade Center as it once was: Kurt Andersen talks with Philippe Petit about his daring tightrope walk between the towers in 1974, and Stephen Vitiello composes music using the sounds of the building. Plus, the novelist Jonathan Franzen
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Novelist Jonathan Franzen : NPR
Author Jonathan Franzen joins Fresh Air to discuss his critically acclaimed and award-winning novel, The Corrections. It is a saga about two generations of an American family; the parents and their children.
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New Yorker Fiction Podcast: Jonathan Franzen “Extreme Writing”
Jonathan Franzen reads Veronica Geng’s “Love Trouble Is My Business” and Ian Frazier’s “Coyote v. Acme” and discusses them with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
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London Police Catch Prankster Who Stole Writer Jonathan Franzen’s Eyeglasses : The Two-Way : NPR
At a book party at the Serpentine Club, two men grabbed the writer’s eyeglasses, left a ransom note, and fled into Hyde Park. The culprit was caught 30 minutes later, and Franzen has his glasses back.