Author: Jonathan Franzen
Pages: 278
Genre: Essays
Grade: B
Synopsis: This book is a collection of essays, all by the same author. The essays cover a huge range of topics from the fate of the American novel to supermax prisons in Colorado and from the story of his short time as an Oprah book-of-the-month author to the workings of American post offices in big cities such as Chicago.
My Review: This collection was published in 2002 and I would be interested to read Franzen's writings on more recent topics. His writing has a liberal slant (don't let that scare you) that gave me plenty of food for thought as I read. Most of the essays were easy to read and didn't digress into too much babble, although there were a couple that could have been trimmed by a few pages. I was reading this book during a late lunch break at Rich's Mighty Fine Burgers and Grub (which is one of my favorite SLC restaurants) and the cook that brought out my food saw me reading this book and mentioned that it was one of his favorite collections of essays. Needless to say I was surprised.
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