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Franzen's new novel "Purity" coming in 2015

Jonathan Franzen’s fans will have plenty to read next year. ...
racy faggotry area
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no no no no no no no no no no
jade laughsome therapy
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main character named "pip"
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"The narrative stretches from contemporary America to S...
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bistre passionate field
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“There’s a kind of fabulist quality to it,” he said. “It’s n...
jade laughsome therapy
  11/17/14
MAGICAL REALISM!
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amazing. "mythic undertones". just pull a little o...
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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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jade laughsome therapy
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please somebody help
jade laughsome therapy
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lol at "famously tortured creative temperament"
obsidian sandwich death wish
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dfw: kills self franzen: "who does that? faggot" ...
jade laughsome therapy
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JFC, cut it out, Franzen.
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would have been a perfect evan39 post
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PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE THIS NEVER HAPPEN
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Why is Franzen writing a Nicholas Sparks' novel?
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>Mr. Weinstein’s biography, titled “Jonathan Franzen: The...
trip ivory parlour
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jfc get in here jfc
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i saw man, if i don't acknowledge it maybe it's not real
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it's not real but it IS mythic and fabulist
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*jonathan franzen preening in the mirror, talking to himself...
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MFCR
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*franzen tucks cock and balls between his legs* "I'd...
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fuckin great 180 this should have 25 replies
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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:04 PM
Author: racy faggotry area

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737725)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:05 PM
Author: jade laughsome therapy

no no no no no no no no no no

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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:06 PM
Author: jade laughsome therapy

main character named "pip"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26737735)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:07 PM
Author: jade laughsome therapy

"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: bistre passionate field



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:19 PM
Author: jade laughsome therapy

“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: bistre passionate field

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: jade laughsome therapy

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: aqua stirring senate fat ankles



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:22 PM
Author: Underhanded iridescent stag film

"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: Bespoke mentally impaired quadroon gunner

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: jade laughsome therapy



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:11 PM
Author: jade laughsome therapy

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: obsidian sandwich death wish

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: jade laughsome therapy

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: Underhanded iridescent stag film

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: 180 native depressive

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: jade laughsome therapy

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: floppy juggernaut mad cow disease



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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:47 AM
Author: racy faggotry area



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Date: March 15th, 2015 7:34 PM
Author: drunken sound barrier rehab



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Date: March 27th, 2015 10:23 PM
Author: Razzle theater

alas

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#27568397)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 2:31 PM
Author: jade laughsome therapy

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: Charismatic yarmulke

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: trip ivory parlour

>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: jade laughsome therapy

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: Burgundy jet-lagged abode dopamine

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: jade laughsome therapy

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: Burgundy jet-lagged abode dopamine

*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: jade laughsome therapy

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: Underhanded iridescent stag film

*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: Cobalt meetinghouse

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26742795)



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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:57 AM
Author: mahogany orchestra pit

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: Vivacious Flirting Garrison

180

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Date: March 27th, 2015 10:22 PM
Author: mustard school cafeteria multi-billionaire



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Date: April 3rd, 2015 10:12 AM
Author: jade laughsome therapy



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



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Date: October 27th, 2026 1:40 AM
Author: Franzenstomp



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Date: November 18th, 2014 7:20 AM
Author: aromatic hominid windowlicker



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Date: November 18th, 2014 7:41 AM
Author: aromatic hominid windowlicker

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: jade laughsome therapy

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26742801)



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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:43 AM
Author: jade laughsome therapy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#26861022)



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Date: December 5th, 2014 12:54 AM
Author: trip ivory parlour

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: offensive cuck



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2730408&forum_id=2#27495326)