Jones, Jim Shepard, Deborah Eisenberg, Marilynne Robinson, Nathan Englander, Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis.

NEWYORKER: Joshua Ferris

Jonathan Franzen put himself under huge pressure to deliver a novel which would be a critical success.

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Coetzee, Cees Nooteboom, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Denis Johnson, Jeffrey Eugenides, Deborah Eisenberg, Mavis Gallant, Jonathan Franzen, Francine Prose, Mary Gaitskill, Tobias Wolff.

NEWYORKER: David Bezmozgis

Author Jami Attenberg listened to a talk by author Jonathan Franzen, where Franzen had this to say about Twitter.

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Off the top of my head: Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Chang-rae Lee, Mary Karr, Mary Gaitskill, Edwidge Danticat, Edmund White, and about a hundred others.

NEWYORKER: Gary Shteyngart

Ordinariness is at the heart of Jonathan Franzen's extraordinary novel.

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"Jonathan Franzen disappears for several years!"

BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript