Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franzen

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Mallon talks about Franzen’s “Crossroads,” and Joshua Ferris discusses “A Calling for Charlie Barnes.”

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0:00.0	This episode, two big new novels of fall.
0:12.0	First, why is Jonathan Franz and Zork so beloved and Jonathan Franz and the author so
0:17.2	polarizing?
0:18.2	A novelist and critic Thomas Mellon will join us to talk about Franz and Zleidist book
0:23.0	Crossroads.
0:24.0	And what's Josh Ferris' new novel about?
0:28.0	Ferris will join us to talk about his latest book, A Calling for Charlie Barnes.
0:32.6	Alexander Alter will be here to talk about what's going on in the publishing world.
0:36.8	Plus, we'll hear from two brand new critics, Molly Young and Alexandra Jacobs.
0:42.8	This is the Booker View Podcast for the New York Times.
0:45.4	It's October 15th.
0:46.4	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:50.3	Novelist and critic Thomas Mellon joins us now from Washington DC.
0:54.1	He writes about the new Jonathan Franz and novel Crossroads this week in the Booker
0:58.3	View.
0:59.3	Tom, thanks for being here.
1:00.3	Thanks for having me.
1:01.7	We will talk about this new book.
1:03.8	But I do feel like we need to do a little bit of a Jonathan Franz and Primmer because there
1:10.1	seems to be an assumption that everyone knows has read, has an opinion, maybe has not read,
1:16.8	but has an opinion about Jonathan Franz and then there are a lot of people who don't know
1:21.5	what any of this is all about and why everybody gets all heated.
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