After “Gatsby” and “Catcher” and Gaddis it didn’t look back. It honed its approach for cell-phone mini-books, then buffed up, tried on smirks, and tramped past a bust of Jonathan Franzen. If this was its coming-out party, it mainly peered in- ward. It wanted to jostle a reader’s heart into snare-drumming for bit players on […] The post The Novel (James Reiss) appeared first on Carolyn Daughters.| Carolyn Daughters
I’ve been on a bit of a Jonathan Franzen bender lately. I frequently write about him on my other site. The kickstart for all this was a book club meeting about Crossroads for which I not only read the book, but also watched and read a dozen or so Franzen interviews. Older and newer interviews.… Read More »| Jan van den Berg