FRANZEN WINS NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

Attention soon shifted from "The Corrections" to [Jonathan Franzen] himself. Five years after lamenting in an essay for Harper's magazine that authors can't get people angry any more, Franzen proved they could just insult [Oprah Winfrey]. Winfrey made "The Corrections"...

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Published inThe Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.)
Main Author ITALIE, HILLEL
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver, Wash Columbian Publishing Company 16.11.2001
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Book awards
Franzen, Jonathan
Winfrey, Oprah
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Summary:Attention soon shifted from "The Corrections" to [Jonathan Franzen] himself. Five years after lamenting in an essay for Harper's magazine that authors can't get people angry any more, Franzen proved they could just insult [Oprah Winfrey]. Winfrey made "The Corrections" her September book club pick, virtually ensuring hundreds of thousands of sales, but Franzen sounded less than grateful in subsequent interviews. He worried about his place in the "high-art literary tradition" and complained the Oprah logo on his book cover amounted to a "corporate" endorsement. Photos by STUART RAMSON/The Associated Press *National Book Awards recipients, from left, Jonathan Franzen, [Alan Dugan], Arthur Miller, [Virginia Euwer Wolff] and [Andrew Solomon], pose for pictures Wednesday after the ceremony in New York. *Novelist Jonathan Franzen poses with his National Book Award he received for fiction with his book, "The Corrections."
ISSN:1043-4151