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Was Oprah Bad For Literature?
Now a new study by Craig Garthwaite, an economist at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, suggests that Franzen had it right the first time. Garthwaite looked at the question of whether the Oprah Book Club, over its 15-year life, expanded the
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Jonathan Franzen's female 'problem' (Franzen and Oprah Winfrey / AP) “[Wharton] did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn't pretty.” “Wharton might well be more congenial to us now, if alongside her other advantages, she'd looked like Grace Kelly or Jacqueline Kennedy. |
Jonathan Franzen and the Web will never get along
That a writer whose fiction is so hyper-aware can be so clueless to the way his work will be received might be the ultimate Franzen paradox. It's been on display ever since he wrestled so painfully and publicly with Oprah Winfrey's decision to include
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Franzen doesn't get Twitter
“Does Oprah eat Raisin Bran?” Eventually, you even start to give a damn about what famous writers think about the weather or, say, social networking, and someone like Jonathan Franzen revels in his dislike of Twitter and other means of social
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RT @: Also I want to see Cris Carter treat the Hall of Fame like Jonathan Franzen treated the Oprah book club.
RT @: Also I want to see Cris Carter treat the Hall of Fame like Jonathan Franzen treated the Oprah book club.
Also I want to see Cris Carter treat the Hall of Fame like Jonathan Franzen treated the Oprah book club.
One of the most talked about books of 2010, Franzen's follow-up to his 2001 novel, The Corrections.