| | | | | TimesTalks - Literature & Life Author: Jonathan Franzen and Charles McGrath
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Publisher's Summary: The author of the acclaimed novel The Corrections and winner of the National Book Award on how culture serves the novel and his experiences in the literary world.Jonathan Franzen is a writer of award-winning contemporary fiction and prose that resounds with both the literary critic and the everyday book lover. Mr. Franzen is the author of three novels, The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, and The Corrections, and a collection of essays, How to Be Alone. The Corrections won the National Book Award in 2001 and the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 2003, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the IMPAC/Dublin Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also frequent contributor of essays and journalism to The New Yorker. Charles (Chip) McGrath joined The New York Times as editor of the Book Review in March 1995. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times magazine, and writes for "The Week in Review" and "Arts and Leisure." Prior to joining The Times, Mr. McGrath had been deputy editor of The New Yorker from 1987. At The New Yorker, he edited the work of many writers including Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, George Steiner, Muriel Spark, Anthony Lane, Adam Gopnick, Roger Angell, and John Lahr. This TimesTalk event was recorded on January 11, 2004. |
