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...In September, a group of bestselling authors including John Grisham, David Baldacci, Jonathan Franzen and George RR Martin sued the tech group, accusing its algorithms of being engaged in “systematic theft...
...As a group of best-selling authors including John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen sue OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, for “systematic theft” of their work to train its tools, high-stakes turf wars rage again...
...This month, 17 of the world’s most famous fiction writers, including David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Rachel Vail, George RR Martin, Jonathan Franzen and George Saunders, joined a lawsuit filed...
...Her pairwork with Theseus is an uneasy jitterbug in which the superbly surly Jonathan Goddard manhandles her in tense, piked lifts or submits coldly to her embraces, her body clinging to his like an anguished...
...After years of sharing her writing only with a pen-pal, the Israeli author and poet Avner Shats, Zink first got published in her early fifties after being championed by Jonathan Franzen....
...In 2019, the lauded American novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote an article in The New Yorker titled, “What If We Stopped Pretending?”, arguing: The climate apocalypse is coming....
...There is something of the preacher about Jonathan Franzen....
...I was struck by her mention of a past interview with Jonathan Franzen (Lunch with the FT, October 9, 2015) in which he dismisses her accusation that he is a member of “the 1 per cent” and refers to himself...
...Franzen’s fiction, and from various immigrant novels that over-traffic in the traumas of displacement....
...Franzen, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, and the audiobook of Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead....
...Crossroadsby Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate £20/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $30 Sex, drugs, religion: it’s Christmas 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is busy self-destructing....
...No one would accuse Sally Rooney or Jonathan Franzen of playing fast and loose with the basic form of the novel. There is something to be said for stasis....
...It has, for me, surpassed Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections as a novel that marries big-picture issues with page-turning narrative. Poignant, thoughtful and emotionally wise....
...I remember interviewing Jonathan Franzen to discover that the man who is so smart about the foibles of people in his novels is so clueless about his own....
...On the second, there is near-unanimity — excepting Jonathan Franzen’s presumption of failure — that the goal is net-zero emissions, and that piecemeal policies or individual do-gooding are no substitute...
...In one of my favourite pieces on the subject, the writer Kathryn Chetkovich, perhaps better known as the “spouse equivalent” of Jonathan Franzen, writes of the gnawing resentment she felt towards her partner...
...That may sound like the start of a joke but it is not, especially for philanthropist Bill Gates and author Jonathan Franzen....
...Jonathan Franzen declared the task for “the new world, the zeroes world of George Bush, will be to reassert the ordinary, the trivial, and even the ridiculous in the face of instability and dread”....
...The new politics of climate change A billionaire, a novelist and a professor all write a book about climate change — it may sound like the start of a joke, but Bill Gates, Jonathan Franzen and climate scientist...
...In mid-career he embraced the role of novelist-as-prophet (“The writer leads, he doesn’t follow”, he once told Jonathan Franzen), developing his interest in domestic terrorism in The Names (1982), and invoking...
...Twenty-three years later, and with the exception of a few controversies (remember Jonathan Franzen’s declaration that his nomination for The Corrections didn’t fit with his place in the “high-art literary...
...“As a seducer, he was hampered by ambivalence,” Jonathan Franzen wrote of Chip Lambert, the era’s ur-protagonist, in The Corrections (2001)....
...Everyone hates Jonathan Franzen. Or so you might suppose if you spend too much time on Twitter....
...Zink, an American who has lived for a long time in Germany and whose work only started to be published as she hit mid-life (and was championed by none other than Jonathan Franzen), is a delightfully uncategorisable...
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