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Franzen's literary heroes are the masters of the paranoid, postmodern novel--William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo--writers who spin huge plots full of manic undertakings and dense riffs on civilization and its discontents. The book he put aside to write The Corrections was cut from that cloth. "It had prisons, race relations, stock-market corrections," Franzen says. "The 'corrections' in the finished book are more personal." The social disorders of the 21st century are expressed mostly through the personal distempers of the three siblings and their flight to the false consolations of sex, careerism and consumerism. "They...
Maybe so, but when you correct certain problems in the postmodern novel--its cartoonish characters, its repetitive paranoia and absorption in Big Patterns--you get a better book. The Corrections does not "solve" the mystery of family life, but it renders its mysteries with the fine filament and moral nuance they require. There are already an impressive 90,000 copies in print. While that's not quite John Grisham territory, Franzen has so far made more than a million dollars. This could be another reason why he's feeling optimistic about the literary novel these days. He may be right...
...Yosef Goell writes in the Jerusalem Post: "For years supporters of the Oslo process were at pains to argue that there is no military solution to the conflict. They were partly correct. The painful truth is that in the short and medium terms there are no 'solutions,' either military or political, to such protracted conflicts. We now know there is no diplomatic and political 'solution' either...
...wonder if everyone--the public, the media and the airline--is overreacting. Jim Sabourin, vice president of America West, told me that in each case the airline knew quickly that the children were put on the wrong connecting flight, and immediately made arrangements to get them to the correct destination. The incidence of children being misdirected is rare; so far this year the Department of Transportation has received only a handful of complaints concerning misdirected kids...
...user. The doors have no conventional handles - they are lifted open and shut like gates. More worrying still, there are no temperature dials to adjust either the hotplates or ovens. So how on earth do you cook? Nervous novices get no comforting answer. Choose the appropriate oven and the correct level inside for positioning the food, they are told...