Podcast Episodes featuring Jonathan Franzen

Chapter 137: Jonathan Franzen finds fellow freaks and forges fantastic fiction

3 Books With Neil Pasricha - June 22, 2024 01:07 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 249 ratings
  I remember getting the knife.     It was near Christmas about 10 years ago and Leslie and I were zipping up a tiny suitcase before a beach trip with her grandparents and extended family. We weren’t married and I was making a desperate last-second plea to stuff a 576-page novel called ‘...

Jonathan Franzen

City Arts & Lectures - January 07, 2019 17:48 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 322 ratings
Our guest is Jonathan Franzen, the author of celebrated novels including “The Corrections” and “Freedom.” On November 27, 2018, Franzen came to the Nourse Theater in San Francisco to read from his new essay collection, “The End of The End of The Earth.” Part social criticism, part perso...

Episode 426 — Jonathan Franzen

Otherppl with Brad Listi - August 10, 2016 08:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 477 ratings
Jonathan Franzen is the guest. His latest novel, Purity, is available now in trade paperback from Picador. It is the official August selection of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. In today's monologue, I discuss being in flux. And my dog Walter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Jonathan Franzen - Freedom

World Book Club - November 08, 2015 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
US literary superstar Jonathan Franzen talks about his hugely acclaimed novel Freedom. An epic of contemporary love and marriage, Freedom charts the exploits of the Berglund family, capturing the temptations and burdens of liberty, the thrills of teenage lust, the frustrations of trying to chang...