Novelist Jonathan Franzen To Give Public Reading At Muhlenberg College
Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Franzen will give a public reading at Muhlenberg College on Monday, February 12 at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Monday, January 8, 2007 01:59 PM
Franzen’s The Corrections won the National Book Award for fiction in 2001. His ambivalence over the novel’s selection for Oprah’s Book Club got him disinvited from her show but propelled him into the national spotlight and generated a national conversation about “highbrow” and “lowbrow” art. He is the author of two other critically acclaimed novels, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), a book of essays, How to Be Alone (2002), and most recently, a memoir, The Discomfort Zone (2006). He lives in New York City and contributes essays, including political journalism to The New Yorker.
This public reading is free and open to the public, and is part of Living Writers, a semester-long series of public readings. Future readings will be given by novelists Sue Miller and Laurie Stone, poet Barbara Reyes and playwright Brighde Mullins.
