![]() ![]() "There's a wish, I think, to be in an intimate relationship with a readership. "I'm in the business of betraying secrets about myself," Franzen says, reflecting on his personal essays. When Pip takes a job working for a mysterious WikiLeaks-type website, the novel veers into themes of secrecy, privacy and identity - three issues with which Franzen is very familiar. ![]() The central character of his latest novel, Purity, is "Pip," a recent college graduate who is weighed down by student-loan debt and the desire to know who her father is. He has also written numerous personal essays. ![]() you're in a fantasy land and feeling no pain."įranzen is the author of five novels, including The Corrections, which won the National Book Award in 2001. Jonathan Franzen is also the author of Freedom and the essay collection How To Be Alone.įor novelist Jonathan Franzen, writing isn't just an escape from himself, it's an "escape from everything." He tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross: "It's like having this dream that you can go back to, kind of on demand. ![]()
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