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...other has been frequently, almost carelessly, associated with that portentous label of “Great American Novel.” Salman Rushdie’s Fury is his first novel since he received his new, fatwa-free lease on life, and is set in New York City; Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is his first novel since he so boldly claimed in the pages of Harper’s to have the secret to reviving American fiction. Both deal with life in America at the turn of the century, both are preoccupied by the angst of simply...
...still be running or would lose their original stars before my next visit home. When I got to the front of the line and saw what was available, I happily snatched up a seat for tick, tick,… BOOM!, an off-Broadway musical written by the late Jonathan Larson, a Tony and Pulitzer-prize winner for RENT. I had read much about the show and was excited to see a piece that Larson had written for himself to perform as a one-man show; its original title was 30/90 and it told of his anxiety at turning...
...performer. This was not the first time I saw Esparza on stage—I was impressed by his turn as Che in the 20th anniversary tour of Evita that played Boston two summers ago and was wowed by his Riff-Raff in Rocky Horror—but as Jonathan he displayed such vocal power and genuine vulnerability, that there was no way I could pull my eyes off of him. Esparza is a theatrical force to be reckoned with and I’m sure he will captivate in this fall’s Broadway premiere of Sondheim?...
...even while he says this you can see the doubts digging tunnels under his composure. Because this, after all, is the same Jonathan Franzen who nine years ago was almost ready to call it quits as a fiction writer, figuring that not only was he at the end of his rope but so was the novel in general. When his first book, The Twenty-Seventh City, was published in 1988, he was just 29. The intricate tale of a vengeful woman hired from Bombay to become police chief of St. Louis, Mo., it got good reviews and decent sales...
...professor Jonathan Zittrain sees no problem with the economic downturn opening the floodgates at the admissions office...