Farther Away Jonathan Franzen

Farther Away is a 2012 collection of essays by the American writer Jonathan Franzen.[1][2][3]

Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and others.

• “Pain Won't Kill You” (2011)
• “Farther Away” (2011)
• “The Greatest Family Ever Storied” (2010)
• “Hornets” (2010)
• “The Ugly Mediterranean” (2010)
• “The Corn King” (2010)
• “On Autobiographical Fiction” (2009)
• “I Just Called To Say I Love You” (2008)
• “David Foster Wallace” (2008)
• “The Chinese Puffin” (2008)
• “On The Laughing Policeman” (2008)
• “Comma-Then” (2008)
• “Authentic But Horrible” (2007)
• “Interview With New York State” (2007)
• “Love Letters” (2005)
• “Our Little Planet” (2005)
• “The End Of The Binge” (2005)
• “What Makes You So Sure You're Not The Evil One Yourself?” (2004)
• “Our Relations : A Brief History” (2004)
• “The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit” (2002)
• “No End To It” (1998)

Culture Critic assessed critical response as an aggregated score of 80%,[4] while The BookScore assessed it at an aggregated critic score of 7.3/10 based on an accumulation of British and American press reviews.[5][6] On July/Aug 2012 issue of Bookmarks Magazine, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Franzen's crisp, incisive prose, frankness, and engaging sense of humor make Farther Away standard Franzen fare".[7][8]

In The New York Times Book Review, the essayist Phillip Lopate wrote that the pieces "demonstrate [Franzen's] generosity, humanity and love of fiction, as well as his own preference for the morally complex over the sentimental. The struggle to be a good human being, against the pulls of solipsism and narcissism, can be glimpsed in every page of these essays, which if nothing else offer a telling battle report from within the consciousness of one of our major novelists."[9]

In the English newspaper The Guardian, writer and critic Geoff Dyer found advances over Franzen's previous essay collection, How to Be Alone: "Franzen seems more gregarious than he was in How to be Alone...These essays are exemplary instances of reader-friendly criticism in that they can be studied profitably even by people unfamiliar with the works in question. They also display [a] related side-effect of becoming a great novelist. That the great novelist is, by default, a great reader...One way or another, the essays in Farther Away are attempts to enlarge the place where literature, and the responsiveness to it, can be preserved."[10]

1. ^ Levack, Chandler (8 June 2012). "Book Review: Farther Away, by Jonathan Franzen". National Post. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
2. ^ Ulin, David L. (29 April 2012). "Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
3. ^ "Farther Away". www.neworleansreview.org. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
4. ^ "Jonathan Franzen - Farther Away". Culture Critic. Archived from the original on 19 Sep 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
5. ^ "Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen". The BookScore. Archived from the original on 31 Aug 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
6. ^ "Farther away". Books & Media. Archived from the original on 16 Jun 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
7. ^ "Farther Away". Bookmarks Magazine. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
8. ^ "Farther Away". Bookmarks Magazine. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
9. ^ Lopate, Phillip (18 May 2012). "Manageable Discontents". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
10. ^ "Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen – review". the Guardian. 2012-06-09. Retrieved 2022-01-24.

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