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...Maris' single-season home-run record only to see Barry Bonds eclipse the mark this year; in St. Louis. McGwire, a 12-time All-Star first baseman who hit a lifetime 583 home runs, exits a remarkable 15-year career after battling tendinitis in his right knee. AWARDED. JONATHAN FRANZEN, 42, the prestigious National Book Award for his best-selling novel The Corrections, about the dysfunctional Lambert family in middle America; in New York City. Franzen came into the spotlight when he was disinvited to Oprah Winfrey's dinner after questioning the literary merit of her book-club endorsement. DIED...
...novelist, a phone call from OPRAH WINFREY is like a house call from the prize patrol: the big check has arrived. The author appears on Oprah's show, and sales go through the roof. But not long after JONATHAN FRANZEN's literary best seller The Corrections got the nod, the writer got cold feet: "She's picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe," he said. Oprah's justice was swift. She did not withdraw the seal of approval, but she did the next worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will...
...Comedy of Errors—is a fitting testament to both Fox’s past and her present. Borrowed Finery comes at a time when Fox’s adult fiction is enjoying a rather remarkable resurgence, spurred in large part by the newly prominent author Jonathan Franzen, who discovered Fox’s 1970 novel Desperate Characters in the library at Yaddo, the writers’ colony in upstate New York. Franzen pushed for its reissue, calling it “obviously superior to any novel by Fox’s contemporaries John Updike, Philip Roth and Saul...
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