Open Salon

  • Home
  • Blogs
  • Topics
  • Help
  • Sign in
 
  • Editor's Pick
  • Top Rated
  • Most Viewed
  • Most Commented
  • Most Recent
  • animals
  • belief/religion
  • books
  • business
  • comedy
  • design
  • economy
  • environment
  • family
  • fashion
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • food/drink
  • for sale
  • gay/lesbian
  • gossip
  • health
  • movies
  • music
  • news
  • open call
  • photography
  • poetry
  • politics
  • science
  • sports
  • technology
  • television
  • travel
  • video
Posted by
    • 0 Ratings
    • 72 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    Awww, HBO, Say It Ain't So...

    MAY 1, 2012 6:52PM

    By jennipenni


    Topics: jonathan franzen, noah baumbach, the corrections, hbo, maggie gyllenhaal, ewan mcgregor, entertainment, media, television, books, literature

    • 1 Ratings
    • 277 Views
    • 3 Comments
    User picture.

    Twitter and Loss of Solitude

    APRIL 9, 2012 4:38AM

    By Diana Senechal


    Topics: books, jonathan franzen, twitter, social media, publicity, the human condition, hannah arendt, introversion, susan cain, friendship, privacy, solitude, republic of noise

    • 2 Ratings
    • 229 Views
    • 1 Comments
    User picture.

    For love of stuff.

    JUNE 9, 2011 10:43AM

    By roSPORKad


    Topics: hoarding, stuff, the great disruption, thomas friedman, jonathan franzen, new york times, my tiny hypocrisy

    • 1 Ratings
    • 279 Views
    • 4 Comments
    User picture.

    Sex Talk

    MAY 11, 2011 1:23PM

    By Claudia Sternbach


    Topics: awake, mindful, sleepless, laura logan, violence, compassion, books, reading, writing, female, expression, jonathan franzen, friends, love, sex

    • 10 Ratings
    • 4447 Views
    • 26 Comments
    User picture.

    Pale Kings: Thomas Pynchon On David Foster Wallace

    APRIL 5, 2011 9:01AM

    By Robert Brenner


    Topics: the crying of lot 49, brief interviews with hideous men, v., infinite jest, gravity's rainbow, the pale king, david foster wallace, thomas pynchon, books, publishing, the broom of the system, axl rose, chinese democracy, against the day, mason & dixon, everything and more, a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, jonathan franzen, oprah, the corrections, inherent vice, consider the lobster, oblivion, nixon, watergate, vietnam, reagan, thatcher, john mccain

    • 1 Ratings
    • 453 Views
    • 2 Comments
    User picture.

    Man Up

    MARCH 13, 2011 1:37PM

    By k l dow


    Topics: masculinity, urban dictionary, semantics, jonathan franzen, gender

    • 0 Ratings
    • 168 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    Freedom and "Best of 2010" lists

    DECEMBER 11, 2010 1:46PM

    By Michael Backus


    Topics: the new york review of books, the new york times, best of 2010 books, a gate at the stairs, lorrie moore, freedom, jonathan franzen

    • 0 Ratings
    • 157 Views
    • 1 Comments
    User picture.

    How to Be Alone

    NOVEMBER 8, 2010 12:51AM

    By Jeffrey Paul Dore


    Topics: open call, authors, richard yates, jonathan franzen, loneliness, writers, writing

    • 10 Ratings
    • 369 Views
    • 10 Comments
    User picture.

    A Serendipity

    OCTOBER 29, 2010 12:35PM

    By Brassawe


    Topics: jonathan franzen, freedom

    • 12 Ratings
    • 465 Views
    • 15 Comments
    User picture.

    A Reader's Destruction in Reading: Introduction

    OCTOBER 20, 2010 4:29PM

    By Brassawe


    Topics: books, jonathan franzen, how to be alone

    • 1 Ratings
    • 835 Views
    • 2 Comments
    User picture.

    The Nobel Prize for Literature: My American Suggestions

    OCTOBER 7, 2010 2:58PM

    By Kevin Broccoli


    Topics: nobel prize for literature, salon reading club, toni morrison, cormac mccarthy, pearl s. buck, sinclair lewis, john updike, philip roth, joyce carol oates, raymond carver, mario vargas llosa, jonathan franzen, freedom, the corrections, j.m. coetzee, orhan pamuk, zadie smith, michael chabon, president obama

    • 2 Ratings
    • 368 Views
    • 2 Comments
    User picture.

    Say it again, Sam*

    SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 11:58AM

    By Anne Shulock


    Topics: movies, david fincher, the social network, journalism, jonathan franzen

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1665 Views
    • 34 Comments
    User picture.

    Why Franzen is the Wrong Face for "Franzenfreude"

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 2:43PM

    By ester bloom


    Topics: books, jonathan franzen, sci fi, young adult, freedom, feminism, fiction

    • 1 Ratings
    • 453 Views
    • 1 Comments
    User picture.

    South Park, Freedom and First Dates in Kansas City:

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 1:17PM

    By Dan Lybarger


    Topics: salon reading club, books, open call, kansas city star, new york times, media, rainy day books, eric cartman, south park, kansas city, unity temple, david brooks, jonathan franzen, oprah winfrey, freedom, salon book club, laura miller

    • 10 Ratings
    • 473 Views
    • 24 Comments
    User picture.

    Franzen's success provokes self-publishing

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 9:37AM

    By Matt Paust


    Topics: jonathan franzen, self-publishing, lulu, literary establishment, mediocrity rules

    • 0 Ratings
    • 226 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    Retreat

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 3:06PM

    By Patrick McEvoy-Halston


    Topics: jonathan franzen, freedom

    • 2 Ratings
    • 583 Views
    • 4 Comments
    User picture.

    Judging a Man By His Book Covers - Is This Shallow?

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 11:30AM

    By Lee Harrington


    Topics: jonathan franzen, merwin, st. augustine, dogs, barnes and noble, trump, plato, milton, writers, brooklyn, stoop sale, new yorker, jhumpa

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2779 Views
    • 87 Comments
    User picture.

    Freedom: Which Character Is Franzen?

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 7:53AM

    By Juliet Waters


    Topics: jonathan franzen, freedom, books

    • 1 Ratings
    • 1061 Views
    • 0 Comments
    User picture.

    (Open) Salon Book Club Review: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 2:40PM

    By E. Magill


    Topics: open salon book club, novels, books, reviews, franzen, jonathan franzen, freedom, salon book club

    • 1 Ratings
    • 532 Views
    • 1 Comments
    User picture.

    The New York Times Book Review: Battle of the Sexes

    SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 3:06PM

    By Kevin Broccoli


    Topics: the new york times book review, the corrections, jennifer weiner, jonathan franzen, jodi picoult

    • 1 2 Next → Last ⇒
  • Open Salon
  • About
  • Contact
  • Help
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Advertising

Salon.com

© 2012 Salon Media Group, Inc.