Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franzen
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Crossroads
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen is an expansive contemporary novel that delves into the intricate dynamics of a suburban Chicago family and their church group during the turbulent social landscape of the early 1970s.
Discussed“where does this novel Crossroads fall for you in the kind of Pantheon of Jonathan France and novels it's a lot better than Purity the one that preceded it”
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Discussed“would you read a little bit from a calling for Charlie Barnes I would love to”
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The Corrections
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen is a sweeping, critically acclaimed novel that explores the complex dynamics of an American family at the turn of the twenty-first century, ultimately propelling the author to massive mainstream prominence.
Discussed“I still think the corrections is probably the best of the four”
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Freedom
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen is a sweeping contemporary novel that chronicles the domestic struggles, marital disillusionment, and political anxieties of a middle-class American family.
Discussed“the only one that I think you could c a failure would be Purity but I would say this is probably kind of up there with freedom”
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely regarded as a masterwork of Victorian literature, brilliantly capturing the complex social fabric, political undercurrents, and psychological depths of provincial English life.
Discussed“he's called the trilogy the key to all mythologies which is of course the title of the failed novel or grand work of casabon in Middle March”
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Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and just tell listeners quickly the title of your most recent novel uh my most recent novel is called landfall and it's the third volume in a Trilogy a political Trilogy”
“there was a book called Watergate set obvious ly during the Nixon years finale which was set during Reagan's time”
“there was a book called Watergate set obvious ly during the Nixon years finale which was set during Reagan's time”
“the new novel by Jonathan fransen Crossroads”
“he's the author of four books three of them novels then we came to the end the named and to rise again at a decent hour a collection of Stories the dinner party and his latest novel a calling for Charlie Barnes”
“he's the author of four books three of them novels then we came to the end the named and to rise again at a decent hour a collection of Stories the dinner party and his latest novel a calling for Charlie Barnes”
“he's the author of four books three of them novels then we came to the end the named and to rise again at a decent hour a collection of Stories the dinner party and his latest novel a calling for Charlie Barnes”
“he's the author of four books three of them novels then we came to the end the named and to rise again at a decent hour a collection of Stories the dinner party and his latest novel a calling for Charlie Barnes”
“he's the author of four books three of them novels then we came to the end the named and to rise again at a decent hour a collection of Stories the dinner party and his latest novel a calling for Charlie Barnes”
“I will leave it to listeners to discover more in the novel which is called again calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris”