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Whether you are just starting or looking for expert advice, chances are, you'll find something of interest on blogis librorum. For those who don't remember, back in , Franzen expressed concern that Oprah's endorsement of his book would dissuade male readers from engaging with it. He told NPR's Terry Gross: I had some hope of actually reaching a male audience and I've heard more than one reader in signing lines now at bookstores say "if I hadn't heard of you, I would have been put off by the fact that it is an Oprah pick.
I figure those books are for women. I would never touch it. Oprah: "The impression most people got was Is that true? I do not think of myself as a snob. American novelist Jonathan Franzen has reflected on the impact of his book The Corrections, as it reaches its 20th anniversary.
The novel received critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as winning the National Book Award for Fiction. However, speaking to The Guardian , Franzen recalled the uproar he sparked after snubbing Oprah Winfrey when she selected The Corrections for her book club.
And here people are telling me that they recognise it. I felt deeply grateful, but I also realised that my contempt for the non-hardcore readers — the softer core readers In fact, there was a whole lot more people looking for a certain kind of novelistic experience than I had any idea. The Corrections, which was published in , when Franzen was 42, sold more than three million copies. G ood relationships make for boring novels.
She knows a lot of stuff. Maybe a dog. For 14 years, from his early 20s onwards, he was married to another writer, Valerie Cornell. With all the caveats about autobiography in place, elements of the experience clearly inform parts of Purity. Because I know that if you are hostile, you will find ammunition. I wrote this deliriously praising celebration of Edith Wharton. People managed to find a way to make it sound like I was hating on Edith Wharton.
So why not just let it all rip and: have fun with that, guys. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. So I was attracted to a story of someone trying to do reparations.
And trying really hard and really sincerely, and lovingly, and finally not being able to. The comedy of that. It takes nerve, these days, to criticise social media, as it does to piss off Oprah, as the novelist famously did in In the essay Franzen wrote after the incident, he cleared up a lot of the misconceptions, namely that he turned down Oprah when she invited him to be on her show. In fact, she disinvited Franzen after he made some equivocal remarks about being on the show during publicity and was a brat when the crew came to St Louis to film background.
And hurt a number of people. And what is the one thing a competition winner has to do? They have to show abject gratitude.
And the answer was no. So I blame her, too. And I think the fact that I was a white guy made that harder. And I think she was sensitive to any suggestion that I might be dissing her.
And, of course, then I did diss her.
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