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Franzen's new novel "Purity" coming in 2015

Jonathan Franzen’s fans will have plenty to read next year. ...
sable titillating parlour
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no no no no no no no no no no
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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main character named "pip"
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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"The narrative stretches from contemporary America to S...
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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“There’s a kind of fabulist quality to it,” he said. “It’s n...
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
  11/17/14
MAGICAL REALISM!
Gay immigrant cuckold
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amazing. "mythic undertones". just pull a little o...
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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"Yeah," he added, "I'm just puking random gar...
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what's hilarious about this is that Franzen, a self-proclaim...
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blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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please somebody help
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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lol at "famously tortured creative temperament"
Vigorous property elastic band
  11/17/14
dfw: kills self franzen: "who does that? faggot" ...
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
  11/17/14
JFC, cut it out, Franzen.
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i was 100% convinced this was well crafted flame before i cl...
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would have been a perfect evan39 post
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PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE THIS NEVER HAPPEN
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
  11/17/14
Why is Franzen writing a Nicholas Sparks' novel?
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>Mr. Weinstein’s biography, titled “Jonathan Franzen: The...
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jfc get in here jfc
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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i saw man, if i don't acknowledge it maybe it's not real
marvelous onyx people who are hurt idea he suggested
  11/17/14
it's not real but it IS mythic and fabulist
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
  11/17/14
*jonathan franzen preening in the mirror, talking to himself...
marvelous onyx people who are hurt idea he suggested
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MFCR
blue school cafeteria party of the first part
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*franzen tucks cock and balls between his legs* "I'd...
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180
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fuckin great 180 this should have 25 replies
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THE COMEDY OF RAGE
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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:04 PM
Author: sable titillating parlour

Jonathan Franzen’s fans will have plenty to read next year. There’s a forthcoming biography of the author by Philip Weinstein, an English professor at Swarthmore College. And in September, Farrar, Straus & Giroux will release Mr. Franzen’s fifth novel, “Purity.”

Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, described “Purity” as a multigenerational American epic that spans decades and continents. The story centers on a young woman named Purity Tyler, or Pip, who doesn’t know who her father is and sets out to uncover his identity. The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pip’s family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower.

Like Mr. Franzen’s best-sellers “Freedom” and “The Corrections,” which have each sold well over a million copies, his new novel tackles big themes like sexual politics, love and parenthood. But the novel also marks a stylistic departure for Mr. Franzen, Mr. Galassi said.

“There’s a kind of fabulist quality to it,” he said. “It’s not strict realism. There’s a kind of mythic undertone to the story.”

Mr. Franzen, who has a famously tortured creative temperament, spent the last two years working intensely on “Purity,” Mr. Galassi said. It’s his first novel since “Freedom” came out in 2010, though he’s published an essay collection and a translation of essays by the author Karl Kraus in the interim.

Mr. Weinstein’s biography, titled “Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage,” will explore “Franzen’s metamorphoses as a person and as a writer” and includes an analysis of “Purity.” It was written with Mr. Franzen’s consent and cooperation, Mr. Weinstein said.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/new-jonathan-franzen-novel-purity-coming-in-september/?_r=0

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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:05 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

no no no no no no no no no no

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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:06 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

main character named "pip"

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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:07 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

"The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pip’s family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower."

just like freedom this will be as much of a stupid "romp" and as full of "current events" references and so forth as possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737743)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:14 PM
Author: Gay immigrant cuckold



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:19 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

“There’s a kind of fabulist quality to it,” he said. “It’s not strict realism. There’s a kind of mythic undertone to the story.”

what THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737807)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:22 PM
Author: Gay immigrant cuckold

MAGICAL REALISM!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737815)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:24 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

amazing. "mythic undertones". just pull a little oops murakami when people get bored of your midwestern "realist" bullshit about unbelievably stereotypical characters in stupid, boring situations i guess

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737837)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:35 PM
Author: exhilarant principal's office



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:22 PM
Author: Comical green gas station

"Yeah," he added, "I'm just puking random garbage out of head, so don't hold me to anything."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737817)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:31 PM
Author: diverse famous landscape painting

what's hilarious about this is that Franzen, a self-proclaimed "serious writer" whose "audience is posterity" and all that bullshit, doesn't seem to understand that jamming your books full of tedious ephemera is the quickest way to make them unreadable in 5 years time, let alone 50.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26738193)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:33 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:11 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

please somebody help

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737764)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:12 PM
Author: Vigorous property elastic band

lol at "famously tortured creative temperament"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737768)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:13 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

dfw: kills self

franzen: "who does that? faggot"

...later...

voiceover: "franzen has a famously tortured creative temperament"

also LOL. CREATIVE IN WHAT SENSE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737775)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:13 PM
Author: Comical green gas station

JFC, cut it out, Franzen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737779)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:15 PM
Author: big-titted violent jew alpha

i was 100% convinced this was well crafted flame before i clicked the link

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737793)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:16 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

would have been a perfect evan39 post

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737797)



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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:45 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac pea-brained shitlib national



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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:47 AM
Author: sable titillating parlour



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Date: March 15th, 2015 7:34 PM
Author: exciting clear plaza codepig



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Date: March 27th, 2015 10:23 PM
Author: vivacious stage genital piercing

alas

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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:31 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE THIS NEVER HAPPEN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737868)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:33 PM
Author: cerise big state faggot firefighter

Why is Franzen writing a Nicholas Sparks' novel?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737872)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:46 PM
Author: appetizing coffee pot tanning salon

>Mr. Weinstein’s biography, titled “Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage,”

I'm...dying...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737927)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:11 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

jfc get in here jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26738093)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:12 PM
Author: marvelous onyx people who are hurt idea he suggested

i saw man, if i don't acknowledge it maybe it's not real

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26738096)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:13 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

it's not real but it IS mythic and fabulist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26738101)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:15 PM
Author: marvelous onyx people who are hurt idea he suggested

*jonathan franzen preening in the mirror, talking to himself in droning voice*

"i'm fabulist"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26738107)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:16 PM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

MFCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26738113)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:17 PM
Author: Comical green gas station

*franzen tucks cock and balls between his legs*

"I'd read me."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26738115)



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Date: November 18th, 2014 7:29 AM
Author: Wonderful space

180

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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:57 AM
Author: jade main people

fuckin great 180 this should have 25 replies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26861117)



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Date: December 5th, 2014 1:00 AM
Author: flesh adventurous crackhouse laser beams

180

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Date: March 27th, 2015 10:22 PM
Author: Insecure impertinent place of business



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Date: April 3rd, 2015 10:12 AM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part



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Date: October 27th, 2026 12:28 AM
Author: MASE



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Date: November 18th, 2014 7:20 AM
Author: Razzmatazz Plum Meetinghouse Gunner



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Date: November 18th, 2014 7:41 AM
Author: Razzmatazz Plum Meetinghouse Gunner

female main character on an 'eat, pray, love' quest? seems like he's trying to kiss up and ingratiate himself to all the literary harpies who were screeching last time around about his white male heteronormative Great American Novelist anointment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26742800)



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Date: November 18th, 2014 7:43 AM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part

cr

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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:43 AM
Author: blue school cafeteria party of the first part



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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:54 AM
Author: appetizing coffee pot tanning salon

THE COMEDY OF RAGE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26861097)



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Date: March 15th, 2015 7:12 PM
Author: Dun beady-eyed center



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