Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 207
Photo by Shelby Graham, courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jonathan Franzen’s fiction bears the mark of a Midwest upbringing, his books preoccupied with quiet lives nurtured there and broken apart by contact with the rest of the world. But four long novels into an unusually public ­c...
Interviewed by Stephen J. Burn Issue 195, Winter 2010 Photo by Shelby Graham, courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jonathan Franzen's fiction bears the mark of a Midwest upbringing, his books preoccupied with quiet lives nurtured there and broken apart by contact with the rest of the world. But four long novels into an unusually public ­career, Franzen now moves about the country quite a bit, living most of the year in New York, where he writes in an office overlooking busy 125th Street, and some of it in a leafy community on the outskirts of Santa Cruz, where I met him just a few days be
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