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    -WIKIPEDIA: Jonathan Franzen
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    -INDEX: Jonathan Franzen (The New Yorker)
    -PODCAST: Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels: This Week on the Radio Open Source Podcast (Open Source, October 15, 2021, LitHub)
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    -ESSAY: Edith Wharton and the Problem of Sympathy: As if aware of what an unlikable figure she cut, the author placed unlikable women at the center of her novels, then deployed her most potent weapon on their behalf. (Jonathan Franzen, February 5, 2012, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Perchance to dream : In the age of images, a reason to write novels (Jonathan Franzen, 1996, Harpers)
    -ESSAY: How the “No Kill” Movement Betrays Its Name: By keeping cats outdoors, trap-neuter-release policies have troubling consequences for city residents, local wildlife—and even the cats themselves. (Jonathan Franzen, 12/25/23, The New Yorker)
    -STORY: A Talent for Seeming (Jonathan Franzen, June 1, 2026, The New Yorker)
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    -PROFILE: FRANZEN’S ANGER (L. GIBSON, 3/08/23, Public Books)
    -PROFILE: The decline of the Literary Bloke: In featuring just four men, Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists confirms what we already knew: the literary male has become terminally uncool. (Will Lloyd, 4/14/23, New Statesman)
    -ESSAY: The Most Haunting, Nagging, Maddening Exchange from Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections” (Ben Fulton, December 20, 2025, The Common Reader)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Jonathan Franzen’s literary liberal Protestantism pushes limits on where God is found: With 'Crossroads,' Franzen has elevated a rarely explored form: the Protestant Christian novel (Jacob Lupfer, 2/08/22, RNS)
    -ESSAY: How Jonathan Franzen became America's most divisive novelist (John Self 29th September 2021, BBC Magazine)
    -PROFILE: The rise and fall and rise again of Jonathan Franzen: Oprah, Franzenfreude, and Iraqi war orphans: a history of Jonathan Franzen’s controversies. (Constance Grady, Oct 9, 2021, Vox)
    -PROFILE: Jonathan Franzen, America’s Next Top Moralist (New Republic, Oct. 8th, 2021)
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    -ESSAY: Jonathan Franzen is secretly a great food writer. (Jessie Gaynor, August 9, 2022, Lit Hub)
    -REVIEW: of Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (Adam Begley, Spectator)
    -REVIEW: of Crossroads (Sameer Rahim, Prospect)
    -REVIEW: of Crossroads (Peter Tabakis, Spectrum Culture)
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