Today is novelist Jonathan Franzen‘s birthday.
To celebrate, we explored the GalleyCat archives to recover some of the stories Franzen and Freedom inspired on this blog. Enjoy this trip down memory lane, from Glassesgate to Franzen’s first book video (embedded above).
Jonathan Franzen Criticizes Author Videos in New Author Video
Jonathan Franzen Goes to Washington & Meets President Barack Obama
Jonathan Franzen Tops Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee List
Emperor Franzen Unmasked
Jennifer Weiner Leads Franzenfreude Movement
Jonathan Franzen’s Glasses Recovered; Prankster Arrested; No Charges Filed in Glassesgate
(Via HuffPost Books)