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Jonathan Franzen: The Mitt Romney of American Letters

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Jonathan Franzen’s new essay collection Farther Away dropped on April 24, but it’s not likely to cause a stir the way his novels The Corrections (2001) and Freedom (2010), respectively, did—essay collections rarely do. But it will sell because Franzen is…

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No Winner for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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In a move that many claim speaks poorly for the novels of 2011, Columbia University has refused to declare a winner for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This is the eleventh time in Pulitzer’s history, and the first time in…

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