Literary novels like The Marriage Plot and Freedom that reach a broad a readership are rare cultural opportunities to create dialogue about the societies represented within, the people represented within, and the women represented within.

Jonathan Franzen has spoken out against the rise of eBooks at a literary festival in Cartagena, Colombia. According to the Daily Telegraph, the aut...

I'm not sure I see that there's necessarily a trade-off between fiction and non-fiction. More to the point, however, I completely reject that premise that fiction is so obviously apolitical.

"Almost the definition of a mensch, a good person, is that in their heart of hearts they're rather hard on themselves. And yet, you can't get out of bed in the morning if you don't love yourself. I'm merciless towards myself, so being merciless towards my characters comes naturally."

Both Franzen and Wallace used up buckets of ink and callused their fingertips describing the pain that came hand in hand with being a writer, trying to distinguish some underlying significance.

"Patty went even more overboard with Total Jockworld than most, because she could! Because she'd finally escaped from Westchester!" The above was wri...

What reviewers have almost unanimously ignored, however, is that this indelible portrait of our times is also an indelible portrait of contemporary en...

LONDON — Author Rowan Somerville won literature's little-coveted Bad Sex in Fiction Prize Monday for the use of unsettling insect imagery in his...

Denis Leary is at it again, this time in his own book trailer for "Suck On This Year." He says people only pretend to read Franzen and other things th...

We're continuing on the journey/search for the expansive online dating saga, from JDate to Match to....books? I tried "Alikewise" (the name is sort of...

Almost all literary fiction is science fiction, a thought experiment as to what life might be like if we weren't so absorbed in our iPhones but instead watched and listened to the world around us at a moment's rest.

ti LONDON — Book 'em? American author Jonathan Franzen decided instead to give a thief freedom....

LONDON — A corrected edition of Jonathan Franzen's novel "Freedom" is being shipped to British stores. The publisher, HarperCollins' 4th Estate...

In an interview with PBS's Jeffrey Brown, bestselling author Jonathan Franzen said, "I'm not writing for people in 200 years; I'm trying to create boo...

It has been said that any publicity is good publicity. But when someone describes your writing as "like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a ma...

Already a best-seller, "Freedom" is going to sell millions of copies. With Oprah's seal of approval, it may become the kudzu of the literary world, ov...

With the exception of a few female literary giants, it seems that even when a big publication does take note of a compelling female voice, she isn't nearly as strong a writer as her male colleagues.

The Washington Post fiction critic Ron Charles breaks ground with an innovative -- and hilarious -- video review of Jonathan Franzen's newest novel, "...

Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum What appear at first to be just interconnected short stories--albeit beautifully written, distinctivel...