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...Zink delights in mordant but humorous provocation, in the vein of her compatriots Helen DeWitt and Joy Williams....
...Franzen’s latest novel has divided opinion, but in my mind it’s his best book yet....
...I break off writing to answer the door to the postman who is bearing my latest eBay package — some vintage William Morris linen Chrysanthemum fabric of a sort that mum introduced me to when I was 13....
...of pace, setting and indeed century, try Robert Harris’s The Second Sleep , narrated by distinguished Roy McMillan, whose voice you might recognise from the audio version of Harris’s Conclave, and from William...
...Wolitzer deserves more recognition: she is as talented a storyteller as Donna Tartt, as funny as Jonathan Franzen, but she has her own distinct brilliance, too....
...Characterisation is strong, the dancing is top notch and the band (who double as the men in white coats) have a lot of fun with DJ Walde’s soul parodies (singer Elliotte Williams N’Dure has yet to meet a...
...In addition to Ms Foreman, the four other judges on this year’s panel are the critic Jon Day, the academic and novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, the poet David Harsent and the actor Olivia Williams....
...Additional reporting by William Bond Worldwide value of data If the domestic market for personal data sales is worth a potential £15bn a year, what does that mean for the rest of the world?...
...Perhaps it’s that person talking about how much they’re enjoying reading the latest Jonathan Franzen novel — because they couldn’t honestly be enjoying it, could they?...
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/FSG, RRP$28 So it’s not Franzen’s finest — not up there with The Corrections (2001), say....
...William Dalrymple sounded mightily relieved earlier this week, as the Jaipur Literature Festival entered its penultimate day more or less free from controversy. It was quite a change from last year....
...As time passes we would expect to see the community changing in the books it produces, with writers deliberately differentiating themselves from each other, the way William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954...
...But the real story is in the footnotes, in which Franzen laments the state of modern media and confesses his sins as a Fulbright scholar in Berlin....
...In the leading roles, Teneisha Bonner, Lizzie Gough and Tommy Franzen are wholly admirable – but, then, so is every member of the cast....
...Unashamedly cerebral, maximalist, digressive, infuriating and often very funny, Infinite Jest became an underground badge of belonging, appearing on hipster bookshelves next to copies of William Gaddis’s...
...But Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife, Kathleen Winter’s Annabel and Emma Henderson’s Grace Williams Says it Loud will face stiff competition in Emma Donoghue’s Room....
...Or, come to that, William Faulkner on Mark Twain: “a hack writer who would not have been considered fourth-rate in Europe.”)...
...William Shakespeare 3....
...As William Styron put it in the inaugural issue, “I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders....
...hovered around only 10,000 copies, it cultivated a reputation for publishing the best fiction and poetry of the day, whether by established masters or writers of enormous promise - be it Auden, Faulkner or Franzen...
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