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Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen | |
Franzen at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Born | Jonathan Earl Franzen August 17, 1959 Western Springs, Illinois, USA |
Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
Nationality | American |
Period | 1988–present |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Literary movement | Social realism[1][2] |
Notable works | The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010) |
Notable awards | National Book Award 2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2002 |
Website | |
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Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel, The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent novel, Freedom (2010), garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist".[3][4]
Franzen writes for The New Yorker magazine. His 1996 Harper's essay Perchance to Dream bemoaned the state of contemporary literature. Oprah Winfrey's book club selection in 2001 of The Corrections led to a much publicized feud with the talk show host. In recent years, Franzen has become recognized for his purveyance of opinions on everything from social networking services such as Twitter ("the ultimate irresponsible medium") and the proliferation of e-books ("just not permanent enough") to the disintegration of Europe ("The people making the decisions in Europe are bankers. The technicians of finance are making the decisions there. It has very little to do with democracy or the will of the people.") and the self-destruction of America ("almost a rogue state").[5][6][7]
Early life and education[edit]
Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois,[8] the son of Irene (née Super) and Earl T. Franzen.[9][10][11] His father, raised in Minnesota, was of Swedish descent.[12] Franzen grew up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German in 1981.[13] As part of his undergraduate education, he studied abroad in Germany during the 1979-80 academic year with Wayne State University's Junior Year in Munich program. Here he met Michael A. Martone, on whom he would later base the character Walter Berglund in Freedom.[14] He also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at Freie Universität Berlin in Berlin in 1981-82.[15] From these experiences, he speaks fluent German. Upon graduation Franzen got married and moved with his wife to Boston to pursue a career as a novelist. When this plan fell through, they moved to New York, in 1987, where Franzen managed to sell his first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City.[16]
Early novels[edit]
The Twenty-Seventh City, published in 1988, is set in Franzen's hometown, St. Louis, and deals with the city's fall from grace, St. Louis having been the "fourth city" in the 1870s. This sprawling novel was warmly received and established Franzen as an author to watch.[17] In a conversation with novelist Donald Antrim for Bomb Magazine, Franzen described The Twenty-Seventh City as "a conversation with the literary figures of my parents' generation[,] the great sixties and seventies Postmoderns.",[18] adding in a later interview "I was a skinny, scared kid trying to write a big novel. The mask I donned was that of a rhetorically airtight, extremely smart, extremely knowledgeable middle-aged writer."[19]
Strong Motion (1992) focuses on a dysfunctional family, the Hollands, and uses seismic events on the American East Coast as a metaphor for the quakes that occur in family life (as Franzen put it, "I imagined static lives being disrupted from without—literally shaken. I imagined violent scenes that would strip away the veneer and get people shouting angry moral truths at each other."[19]). A 'systems novel', the key 'systems' of Strong Motion according to Franzen are "[...] the systems of science and religion—two violently opposing systems of making sense in the world."[19] The novel was not a financial success at the time of its publication, and Franzen subsequently defended the novel in his 2010 Paris Review interview, remarking "I think they [critics and readers] may be overlooking Strong Motion a little bit."[19]
The Corrections[edit]
Franzen's The Corrections, a novel of social criticism, garnered considerable critical acclaim in the United States, winning both the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction[20] and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.[21] The novel was also a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction,[21] the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award,[22] and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (won by Richard Russo for Empire Falls).[23]
In September 2001, The Corrections was selected for Oprah Winfrey's book club. Franzen initially participated in the selection, sitting down for a lengthy interview with Oprah and appearing in B-roll footage in his hometown of St. Louis (described in an essay in How To Be Alone titled "Meet Me In St. Louis"). In October 2001, however, The Oregonian printed an article in which Franzen expressed unease with the selection. In an interview on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, he expressed his worry that the Oprah logo on the cover dissuaded men from reading the book:
So much of reading is sustained in this country, I think, by the fact that women read while men are off golfing or watching football on TV or playing with their flight simulator or whatever. I worry — I'm sorry that it's, uh — I had some hope of actually reaching a male audience and I've heard more than one reader in signing lines now at bookstores say "If I hadn't heard you, I would have been put off by the fact that it is an Oprah pick. I figure those books are for women. I would never touch it." Those are male readers speaking. I see this as my book, my creation.[24]
Soon afterward, Franzen's invitation to appear on Oprah's show was rescinded. Winfrey announced, "Jonathan Franzen will not be on the Oprah Winfrey show because he is seemingly uncomfortable and conflicted about being chosen as a book club selection. It is never my intention to make anyone uncomfortable or cause anyone conflict. We have decided to skip the dinner and we're moving on to the next book."[25][26]
These events gained Franzen and his novel widespread media attention. The Corrections soon became one of the decade's best-selling works of literary fiction. At the National Book Award ceremony, Franzen said "I'd also like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her enthusiasm and advocacy on behalf of The Corrections."[27]
Following the success of The Corrections and the publication of The Discomfort Zone and How to Be Alone, Franzen began work on his next novel. In the interim, he published two short stories in The New Yorker: "Breakup Stories", published November 8, 2004, concerned the disintegration of four relationships; and "Two's Company", published May 23, 2005, concerned a couple who write for TV, then split up.[28]
In 2011, it was announced that Franzen would write a multi-part television adaptation of The Corrections in collaboration with The Squid and The Whale director Noah Baumbach for HBO.[29][30] HBO has since passed on Corrections, citing "difficulty" in "adapting the book's challenging narrative, which moves through time and cuts forwards and back": that would be "difficult to sustain in a series and challenging for viewers to follow, hampering the potential show's accessibility".[31]
On June 8, 2009, Franzen published an extract from Freedom, his novel in progress, in The New Yorker. The extract, titled "Good Neighbors", concerned the trials and tribulations of a couple in St. Paul, Minnesota. On May 31, 2010, a second extract — titled "Agreeable" — was published, also in The New Yorker.[32]
On October 16, 2009, Franzen made an appearance alongside David Bezmozgis at the New Yorker Festival at the Cedar Lake Theatre, reading a portion of his forthcoming novel.[33][34] Sam Allard, writing for North By Northwestern about the event, said that the "…material from his new (reportedly massive) novel" was "as buoyant and compelling as ever" and "marked by his familiar undercurrent of tragedy". Franzen read "an extended clip from the second chapter."[34]
On September 9, 2010, Franzen appeared on Fresh Air to discuss Freedom in the wake of its release. Franzen has drawn what he describes as a "feminist critique" for the attention that male authors receive over female authors—a critique he supports. Franzen also discussed his friendship with David Foster Wallace and the impact of Wallace's suicide on his writing process.[35]
Freedom was the subject of a highly unusual "recall" in the United Kingdom starting in early October 2010. An earlier draft of the manuscript, to which Franzen had made over 200 changes, had been published by mistake. The publisher, HarperCollins initiated an exchange program, but thousands of books had been distributed by that time.[36]
While promoting the book, Franzen became the first American author to appear on the cover of Time magazine since Stephen King did so in 2000. Franzen did so alongside the headline "Great American Novelist".[4] He discussed the implications of the Time coverage, and the reasoning behind the title of Freedom in an interview in Manchester, England, in October 2010.[37]
On September 17, 2010, Oprah Winfrey announced that Jonathan Franzen's Freedom would be an Oprah book club selection, the first of the last season of The Oprah Winfrey Show.[38] On December 6, 2010, he appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote Freedom where they discussed that book and the controversy over his reservations about her picking The Corrections and what that would entail.[39]
In a Q&A interview with Portland Monthly on December 18, 2012, Franzen revealed that he currently has "a four-page, single-spaced proposal" for a fifth novel he is currently working on,[40] although he went on to suggest that while he had a proposal there was no guarantee that what was proposed would make the final cut, saying of similar proposals for previous novels, "I look at the old proposals now, and I see the one part of them that actually got made into a book, and I think, "How come I couldn't see that? What is all this other stuff?"".[40] Franzen also hinted that the new novel would probably also be long, adding "I've let go of any illusion that I'm a writer of 150-page novels. I need room to let things turn around over time and see them from the whole lives of other characters, not just the single character. For better or worse, one point of view never seems to do it for me".[40] In October 2014, during a discussion at Colgate University, Franzen read a "self-contained first-person narrative" that is part of a novel that he hopes will be out in the summer of 2015.[41]
On November 17, 2014 The New York Times ' Artsbeat Blog reported that the novel, titled Purity, will be out in September.[42] Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, described "Purity" as a multigenerational American epic that spans decades and continents. The story centers on a young woman named Purity Tyler, or Pip, who doesn't know who her father is and sets out to uncover his identity. The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pip's family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower.[43]
Other works[edit]
In 1996, while still working on The Corrections, Franzen published a literary manifesto in Harper's Magazine entitled Perchance to Dream. Referencing manifestos written by Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe, among others, Franzen grappled with the novelist's role in an advanced media culture which seemed to no longer need the novel. In the end, Franzen rejects the goal of writing a great social novel about issues and ideas, in favor of focusing on the internal lives of characters and their emotions. Given the huge success of The Corrections, this essay offers a prescient look into Franzen's goals as both a literary and commercially-minded author.[44]
In 2002, Franzen published a critique of the novels of William Gaddis, entitled "Mr. Difficult", in The New Yorker. He begins by recounting how some readers felt The Corrections was spoiled by being too high-brow in parts, and summarizes his own views of reading difficult fiction. He proposes a "Status model", whereby the point of fiction is to be Art, and also a "Contract model", whereby the point of fiction is to be Entertainment, and finds that he subscribes to both models. He praises The Recognitions, admits that he only got half-way through J R, and explains why he does not like the rest of Gaddis's novels.[45]
Since The Corrections Franzen has published How to Be Alone (2002), a collection of essays including "Perchance To Dream", and The Discomfort Zone (2006), a memoir. How To Be Alone is essentially an apologia for reading, articulating Franzen's uncomfortable relationship with the place of fiction in contemporary society. It also probes the influence of his childhood and adolescence on his creative life, which is then further explored in The Discomfort Zone.
In September 2007, Franzen's translation of Frank Wedekind's play Spring Awakening (German: Frühlings Erwachen) was published. In his introduction, Franzen describes the Broadway musical version as "insipid" and "overpraised." In an interview with New York magazine, Franzen stated that he had in fact made the translation for Swarthmore College's theater department for $50 in 1986 and that it had sat in a drawer for 20 years since. After the Broadway show stirred up so much interest, Franzen said he was inspired to publish it because "I knew it was a good translation, better than anything else out there."[46]
Franzen published a social commentary on cell phones, sentimentality, and the decline of public space, I Just Called To Say I Love You (2008),[47] in the September/October 2008 issue of "Technology Review", published by MIT.
In 2012 he published Farther Away, a collection of essays dealing with such topics as his love of birds, his friendship with David Foster Wallace, and his thoughts on technology.[48]
In 2013, Franzen published The Kraus Project. It consists of three major essays by the "Perennially [...] impossible to translate"[49] Austrian "playwright, poet, social commentator and satirical genius"[49] Karl Kraus - ""Heine and the Consequences" a takedown of the beloved German poet, "Nestroy and Posterity" which established that playwright's reputation in Austria to this day, and "Afterword to Heine and the Consequences"".[49] The essays are accompanied by "Franzen's [own] plentiful, trenchant yet off-beat annotations"[49] taking on "[...] Kraus' mantle-commenting on what Kraus would say (and what Franzen's opinion is) about Macs and PCs; decrying Twitter's claim of credit for the Arab Spring; and unfurling how media conglomerates influence politics in their quest for profits."[49]
In a lecture on autobiography and fiction, Franzen discussed four perennial questions often addressed to him by others, all of which annoy him or bother him in some way. These are: (1) Who are your influences? (2) What time of day do you work, and what do you write on? (3) I read an interview with an author who says that, at a certain point in writing a novel, the characters "take over" and tell him what to do. Does this happen to you, too? (4) Is your fiction autobiographical? In the lecture he said of the third question in particular "This one always raises my blood pressure" and quoted Nabokov in response.[50]
In February 2010, Franzen (along with writers such as Richard Ford, Zadie Smith and Anne Enright) was asked by The Guardian to contribute what he believed were ten serious rules to abide by for aspiring writers.[51] Franzen's rules ran as follows:
- The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
- Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
- Never use the word "then" as a conjunction – we have "and" for this purpose. Substituting "then" is the lazy or tone-deaf writer's non-solution to the problem of too many "ands" on the page.
- Write in the third person unless a really distinctive first-person voice offers itself irresistibly.
- When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.
- The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
- You see more sitting still than chasing after.
- It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction [the TIME magazine cover story detailed how Franzen physically disables the Net portal on his writing laptop].
- Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
- You have to love before you can be relentless.[51]
Personal life[edit]
Franzen married Valerie Cornell in 1982; they separated in 1994 and are now divorced.[52] Franzen now lives part of the year on the Upper East Side of New York City and part in Boulder Creek, California.[53] When he's in California, Franzen lives with his girlfriend, the writer Kathy Chetkovich.[54][55]
In 2010, Franzen's glasses were stolen, then ransomed for $100,000, at an event in London celebrating the launch of Freedom.[56][57][58]
Television appearances[edit]
- Franzen made an appearance on Charlie Rose in 1996 with fellow authors David Foster Wallace and Mark Leyner to discuss the effects of electronic media on the role of fiction in society.[59]
- Franzen guest starred alongside Michael Chabon, Tom Wolfe, and Gore Vidal in The Simpsons episode "Moe'N'a Lisa", which first aired 19 November 2006. In the episode, he is depicted fighting over literary influences with his real-life friend Chabon.[60]
- Franzen appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on December 6, 2010, to discuss his latest novel Freedom, Oprah's Book Club selection at the time.
- Franzen appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on October 7, 2011, along with Richard Trumka, P. J. O'Rourke, Alan Grayson, and Nicolle Wallace.
Awards, honors, and other recognition[edit]
- Awards
- 1981 Fulbright Scholarship to Germany[61]
- 1988 Whiting Writers' Award
- 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2000 Berlin Prize (American Academy in Berlin)
- 2001 National Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections[20]
- 2001 Salon Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections
- 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner (Fiction) for The Corrections
- 2010 Salon Book Award (Fiction) for Freedom
- 2010 Galaxy National Book Awards, International Author of the Year, Freedom[62]
- 2012 Carlos Fuentes Medal[63] (Inaugural award)
- 2013 Welt-Literaturpreis[64]
- 2015 Budapest Grand Prize[65]
- Honors and other recognition
- 1996 Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists
- 2001 New York Times Best Books of the Year for The Corrections
- 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for The Corrections)
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist (Fiction)[23]
- 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist
- 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (short list)
- 2009 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor American Academy in Berlin
- 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for Freedom)
- 2010 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 list (for Freedom)
- 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) finalist (for Freedom)
- 2012 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters [66]
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) shortlist for The Kraus Project[67][68]
- In January 2011, The Observer named him as one of "20 activists, filmmakers, writers, politicians and celebrities who will be setting the global environmental agenda in the coming year".[69]
- On May 21, 2011, Franzen delivered the commencement address at Kenyon College to the class of 2011.[70]
- The first international academic symposium solely dedicated to Franzen's work took place at Glasgow University, UK, 22 March 2013.[71] Another one, "Jonathan Franzen: Identity and Crisis of the American Novel", was scheduled to take place at the University of Córdoba, Spain, 18–19 April 2013, but later has been cancelled due to the lack of submitted papers.[72]
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- 1988 The Twenty-Seventh City
- 1992 Strong Motion
- 2001 The Corrections
- 2010 Freedom
- 2015 Purity[73]
- 2002 How to Be Alone (essays)
- 2006 The Discomfort Zone (memoir)
- 2012 Farther Away (essays)
Translated works[edit]
- 2007 Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind
- 2013 The Kraus Project (essays by Karl Kraus translated and annotated by Franzen)
- Franzen, Jonathan (February 13–20, 2012). "A Critic at Large: A Rooting Interest". The New Yorker 88 (1): 60–65. Retrieved 2014-11-13.
Further reading[edit]
- Sibylle Freitag, The Return of the Real in the Works of Jonathan Franzen, Essen (Germany) 2009
- Stephen J Burn, Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism, London/New York 2011
- Philip Weinstein, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage (Bloomsbury, 2015, forthcoming)[74]
- ^ "Time 100 Candidates: Jonathan Franzen". Time Magazine. April 4, 2011. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
- ^ Hayden East (November 18, 2014). "New Jonathan Franzen novel Purity features Snowden-like hacker". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
- ^ "Freedom: A Novel". Macmillan. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
- ^ a b Fehrman, Craig (August 16, 2010). "The Franzen Cover and a Brief History of Time". The Millions.
- ^ Flood, Alison (2012-03-07). "Jonathan Franzen: 'Twitter is the ultimate irresponsible medium'". The Guardian (London).
- ^ Flood, Alison (2012-01-30). "Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values". The Guardian (London).
- ^ Manzoor, Sarfraz; Healey, Alex; Tait, Michael (2010-10-25). "Jonathan Franzen: 'America is almost a rogue state'". The Guardian (London).
- ^ "Jonathan Franzen Biography - Bio of Jonathan Franzen". Contemporary Literature.
- ^ Matassa Flores, Michele (September 15, 2010). "A sweaty-palmed night with Jonathan Franzen". Crosscut.com. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- ^ "Jonathan Franzen's struggle for 'Freedom'". Star Tribune.
- ^ Burn, Stephen J. "JONATHAN FRANZEN (1959—)" (PDF). cengage.com.
- ^ "IRENE EARL FRANZEN". Google Books.
- ^ "Jonathan Franzen '81 First Living American Novelist on Time Cover in Decade". Swarthmore. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
- ^ Ferguson, Mark. "75 Years of the Junior Year in Munich." Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching of German 40.2 (Fall 2007): 124-132; p.132.
- ^ "Jonathan Franzen". PEN American Center.
- ^ Willdorf, Nina. "An author's story: How literary It Boy Jonathan Franzen spun himself into a tornado of controversy". The Phoenix.
- ^ Laura Shapiro, "Terra Not So Firma," Newsweek, January 20, 1992. (Shapiro: "A huge and masterly drama of St. Louis under siege, gripping and surreal and overwhelmingly convincing." Shapiro also noted The Twenty-Seventh City's "brilliance," and the author's "prodigious gifts," concluding, "The news that he is at work on a third [novel] is welcome indeed."]
- ^ Antrim, Donald. "Jonathan Franzen". Bomb Magazine. Fall 2001. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
- ^ a b c d Stephen J. Burn (Winter 2010). "Jonathan Franzen, The Art of Fiction No. 207". The Paris Review.
- ^ a b "National Book Awards – 2001". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.(With acceptance speech by Franzen and essays by Mary Jo Bang, David Ulin, and Lee Taylor Gaffigan from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
- ^ a b "Book Prize Information – The Corrections". Bookprizeinfo.com. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ "PEN / Faulkner Foundation Award For Fiction Previous". Penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ a b "Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ^ Gross, Terry (October 15, 2001). "Novelist Jonathan Franzen". Fresh Air (NPR).
- ^ "You go, girl… and she went". The Age. 2006-01-21. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
- ^ "Oprah's Book Club user communication, October 22, 2001".
- ^ "National Book Awards Acceptance Speeches: Jonathan Franzen". National Book Foundation. 2001. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
- ^ "jonathan franzen: Contributors". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ O'Neal, Sean (September 6, 2011). "Noah Baumbach developing Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections as HBO series". A. V. Club.
- ^ Rose, Lacey (2011-09-02). "Noah Baumbach to Take on Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections' for HBO". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (May 1, 2012). "HBO Drama Pilot 'The Corrections' Not Going Forward". Deadline.
- ^ Jonathan Franzen (May 31, 2010), Agreeable, The New Yorker
- ^ "Festival". The New Yorker. 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ a b "The Franzen Interface". North by Northwestern. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ "Franzen On The Book, The Backlash, His Background". Fresh Air (NPR). 2010-09-09. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
- ^ Flood, Alison; Davis, Rowenna (2010-10-01). "Jonathan Franzen's book Freedom suffers UK recall". The Guardian (London).
- ^ Haslam, Dave (October 3, 2010). "Onstage interview with celebrated American novelist Jonathan Franzen". Dave Haslam, Author and DJ - Official Site.
- ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (September 18, 2010). "Oprah's book club christens Franzen's 'Freedom'". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Author Jonathan Franzen Appears on 'Oprah' Show". ABC News.
- ^ a b c http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/books-and-talks/articles/q-and-a-with-jonathan-franzen-january-2013
- ^ Rice, Jessica. "Author Jonathan Franzen visits Colgate as part of Living Writers course". Colgate University. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Alter, Alexandra. "New Jonathan Franzen Novel, 'Purity,' Coming in September". Colgate The New York Times Blog. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ^ Alter, Alexandra. "New Jonathan Franzen Novel, 'Purity,' Coming in September". Colgate The New York Times Blog. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ^ Franzen, Jonathan (1996). "Perchance to dream: In the age of images, a reason to write novels". Harper's.
- ^ Franzen, Jonathan (2002). "Mr. Difficult". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Q&A With 'Spring Awakening: A Play' Translator Jonathan Franzen". 2007-09-10. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ^ "I Just Called to Say I Love You". September/October 2008, Technology Review. Retrieved 2010-12-01. Check date values in:
(help) - ^ Lopate, Phillip (May 18, 2012). "Manageable Discontents". New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d e http://www.melleragency.com/shared/detail.php?id=24916
- ^ Franzen, Jonathan (2012-05-25). "Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom". The Guardian (London).
- ^ a b Dyer, Geoff; Hare, David (2010-02-20). "Ten rules for writing fiction". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2010-03-15.
- ^ Eakin, Emily (2001-09-02). "Jonathan Franzen's Big Book". The New York Times.
- ^ "Jonathan Franzen". The New Yorker.
- ^ http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/05/how-to-read-a-novelist-franzen/
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8035520/Interview-with-Jonathan-Franzen.html
- ^ "Franzen's glasses stolen at launch". The Bookseller.
- ^ Armitstead, Claire (2010-10-05). "Who stole Jonathan Franzen's glasses?". The Guardian (London).
- ^ "Why I stole Franzen's glasses". GQ. 2010-10-06.
- ^ "Charlie Rose". May 17, 1996.
- ^ Barrie-Anthony, Steven (2005-11-30). "The call of 'D'oh!'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
The script calls for Chabon and Franzen to brawl during a dispute about their literary influences, and standing next to each other in the recording room, the friends ready themselves for a fight. Franzen complains loudly that he has fewer lines than Chabon – "Only 38 words!" – to which Chabon responds, "I see there's a little counting going on in the Franzenian corner."
- ^ http://eca.state.gov/fulbright/video/jonathan-franzen-fulbright-student-germany-1981/transcript
- ^ http://www.nationalbookawards.co.uk/international-author-of-the-year/
- ^ Alejandro Alvarado (25 November 2012). "Dan medalla Carlos Fuentes a Franzen" [Carlos Fuentes medal given to Franzen]. Reforma.com (in Spanish) (Grupo Reforma). Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ Richard Kämmerlings (October 4, 2013). "Jonathan Franzen erhält den "Welt"-Literaturpreis". Die Welt. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
- ^ 22nd International Book Festival Budapest
- ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (March 9, 2012). "Franzen, Chabon and Lahiri Named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters". The New York Times.
- ^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ Siegle, Lucy (2011-01-16). "Green giants: the eco power list". The Observer (London).
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/oh-the-places-youll-go-jonathan-franzen-at-kenyon
- ^ http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/50190
- ^ http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/46135
- ^ Alter, Alexandra (2014-11-17). "New Jonathan Franzen Novel, 'Purity,' Coming in September". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- ^ Alter, Alexandra (2014-09-27). "Jonathan Franzen Attracts Biographer". New York Times. p. C3. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- Interviews
- Stephen Burn (Winter 2010). "Jonathan Franzen, The Art of Fiction No. 207". Paris Review.
- An interview with Donald Antrim, Bomb Magazine, Fall, 2001
- An interview with Laura Miller, Salon.com, September 7, 2001
- An interview with Dave Weich, Powells.com, October 4, 2001
- An Interview with Todd Leopold, CNN.com, October 18, 2001
- An interview with Bernadette Conrad, Die Zeit, August 4, 2005
- Answering Viewers' Questions, Big Think, April 14, 2008
- Jonathan Franzen Recommends 4 Overlooked Books, The Daily Beast, August 30, 2010
- An interview with Gregg LaGambina, The A.V. Club, September 1, 2010
- An interview with Dave Haslam, October 3, 2010
- An Interview with J P O'Malley in The New Statesman Magazine, October 18, 2010
- Jonathan Franzen talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about his new novel Freedom The Guardian 25 October 2010
- 2001 Bomb Magazine interview of Jonathan Franzen by Donald Antrim
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Ice skates immediately came to mind when I posted this prompt. It took me a long time to finally get them to sort of look like skates. Response to Pair Creative Prompt.
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News: U.S. service members exchange medical techniques with Congolese counterparts
Story by Staff Sgt. Kassidy Snyder
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo –Approximately 40 U.S. service members exchanged medical techniques with their Congolese counterparts at the Command and Staff College in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of MEDFLAG 10.
"We are showing them how we approach patient care, giving them pointers and seeing what we can do to help improve and fine tune their skills," said Sgt. Stuart Hammer of Mandan, N.D., a combat medic with the 814th Army Support Medical Company, Detachment 1, based in Grand Forks, N.D.
U.S. service members are exchanging medical techniques with the Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo Immediate Response Unit and medics, who are the Congolese military's first responders to disasters.
"We taught classes on malaria, tuberculosis, infectious diseases, parasites, and hypertension," all classes related to Africa, said Capt. Itofe-Engulu Desire, a 16-year veteran doctor with the FARDC.
Classes instructed by U.S. service members included arriving to a scene, assessing, treating and then prepping the patients for transport. The 814th brought training aids to include a U.S. Army issued medic bag and moulage, which is mock injuries for a realistic impression of injured patients.
Private 2nd Class Ndalaga-Sango Augustino, a nurse with the FARDC UMIR said the U.S. medics have taught them procedures for evacuation on the battlefield, which was very beneficial and at the same time they taught different techniques for bandaging patients, which was beneficial to the U.S.
"We've shared a lot of good ideas and have gotten some techniques from them that I never would have thought of such as different patient carries and bandaging of patients," said Spc. Ricky Smith of Fargo, N.D., a combat medic with Detachment 1.
All classes are leading up to a mass casualty exercise that will take place Sept. 16, where the FARDC UMIR will demonstrate how they respond in the event of a disaster.
The UMIR's Company 3 responded to the oil tanker truck that overturned in July and burst into flames killing at least 230 and injuring more than 200 in the eastern Congo. The UMIR would like to show their country the skills they have and with better equipment and trained soldiers they will be able to better treat the local population in the event of a disaster, said Smith.
"In the end, we hope they can gain anything that makes them more adequate at saving lives," said 1st. Lt. Coty Sicble of Bismarck, N.D., a medical administrator with the 814th based in Bismarck.
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Artists from different regions and in diverse languages staged fresh interpretations of the poets' works.
A rediscovery of Tagore's works through the eyes of people outside Bengal was the aim of a Kolkata group, professionals in different fields, with the challenge to allow artists to share the thoughts and values of the Bard in different languages with their own interpretations.
With the late theatre legend Habib Tanvir as their mentor, a Tagore Festival, was organised in 2006 by this group, Happenings, to ensure that Tagore was no longer restricted to a region or language.
The success of the initial venture has laid a platform for other frontiers of the arts and made it an annual event. Alongside, other facets of Tagore's genius, painting, dance and music were included during the years.
The highlight of the 7th Festival was three theatre productions from three corners of the country, at different venues, opening with a dance drama, 'Lajwanti' by Attyam Kalakshetra of Kolkata at the Star Theatre.
Both Nilakanthaeswara Natyaseva Sangha known as Ninasam and Jana Natya Manch abbreviated to Janam were first timers in Kolkata as well as the rural-based tribal theatre group, Badungduppa, named after their onomatopoeic drums, which was established in 1998 at Rampur village in Goalpara, Assam.
The best production of the festival was 'Rather Rashi' (The ropes of the chariot), one of the three plays collected in the book, 'Kaler Yatra' in the dialect Rabha by Bandungduppa under the directorship of Sukracharya Rabha, a Bismaillah Khan Yuba Puraskar awardee, trained under H. Kanhailal and H. Sabitri at Kalakshetra, Imphal.
Bandungduppa presented this play at Tollygunge Club, based on Tagore's work against the evils of the caste system, in the form of an energetic colourful dance –theatre excluding a major part of the text. The chariot during Ratha Yatra (called the Mahakal-Lord of Time/Shiva) does not move when pushed by the people of the upper caste - the Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Baishyas. Finally it is the Sudras who are successful.
The chariot is a metaphor for the division of society into different castes and sections, while its rope symbolises the bond of human relationship. Sukracharya shifts Tagore's idea of united labour for the welfare of the society to prevent imbalance into an upper-caste –Sudra conflict and untouchability - which Tagore did indicate –but not in the form of crisis of humanity. He includes scenes where the lower-castes are denied drinking water from a well or the river or entry into the village temple.
Choreography by Dhananjay and Radhika Rabha engage rhythmic group vocabulary with vaults and turns at charged moments of protest and argument by the people of different classes. A movement to cherish was the synchronised sways, lyrical or energetic pull of the rashi (rope). The music had strong ethnic flavour, sometimes strong marching melodies, a touch of Bhatiyali and fine use of drums.
Comic relief was provided by the village priests and details in costumes were taken good care of. Sukracharya has used a lot of his personal experience such as Rabha's Cultural Heritage movement in conceiving and designing the play, which spoke volumes with a brilliant performance. A bigger stage would have been better.
Ninasam's 'Babugiri' in Kannada at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, combined two short stories – 'The Babus of Naynjore (Thakurda)' and 'My Lord, The Baby(Khokababur Pratyabartan),' written during different periods of Tagore's career and obviously appear disconnected to each other. But they share the commonality of the 'babu' culture.
Storytelling, not theatre
While the first is a story of nostalgia, the second one is a poignant and dramatic tale of how a servant is held responsible for the drowning of a child of the family. The servant brings up his own son as a 'Babu' and presents him as their son. The multilayered narrative interspersed with Rabindrasangeet had very little theatre, more of storytelling with the four actors dramatising the prose, reading directly from the books seated on blocks. Yards of white cloth used to depict the river and the drowning were appealing.
Vidya Hegde's powerful Rabindrasangeet in Bengali compensates for the weakness in the production directed by Akshara K.V. by reinforcing the underlying emotions in the narrative. Also the limited acting could not cross the barrier of language for effective communication.
Sudhanva Deshpande and Brijesh of Janam composed, 'Char Rang,' with a 21st century twist to Tagore's novella, 'Chaturanga' with parallel characters from daily life set largely in a Delhi Metro.
The play about relationships and concern about women, disapproval of superstition is a story of many journeys but has gaps, which director Deshpande attempts to fill up in his own way. He links four characters instead of four friends.
A professor teaches Tagore to a student who is fascinated by it and a young man travelling in the metro gets attracted to her and to Tagore. An older man also on the metro is strangely menacing. All four start off as strangers but find their lives criss-crossing and in the process discover facets of Tagore.
Even with Moloyashree Hashmi in the cast, the characters were not convincing and do not communicate the original theme. Use of puppetry to depict scenes from 'Chaturanga' was amateurish. The play lacked fluidity, but the saving grace was the skilful glass painting interpreting onstage action by Shaaz Ahmed. The five-day festival concluded with a wonderful evening of 18-raga based Rabindrasangeet by Mohan Singh Khangura of Santiniketan.


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Sounds HORRIBLE!
The day they release true pay to win is the day they've given up >_<
It would just encourage lazy quest design, to make you want to skip it.
That said I would be okay if once you have one 90, you could pay to skip to like 60, that still gives you time to get used to the class, plus you SHOULD have gotten the storyline done already.
it wouldn't bother me if they did implement it as i would never pay for such a thing
that being said i think its a bad idea, they should just allow flying mounts whilst levelling through pandaria.
Why are people so against the "Blizz Shop?" They are added services that only serve to enhance a person's play experience. Plus, you dont have to buy it if you dont want to and can continue to keep paying your $15 a month fee to access the servers.
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Whats wrong with ''panda land''? Panda = short for pandaren, and the land itself is filled with them. So its a land with pandaren.
As for the idea, I'll always be against any service that cost real money from Blizzard. I'd be okay with it if the game is F2P, but it isn't
Here is your quote, just so we are clear:
"No. I pay money every month to play this game. I'm not interesting in paying even more in order to to have less content, which is essentially what this is."
You put yourself in a context where it was something that was forced upon you with the bold underlined statement there. I get that you pay money every month to play that game. I get that you are not interested, but dont make it sound like it would hurt your well being if it were an offered service, and dont act like you would be forced to engage in and pay for such service.
I'd pay to blast a toon through panda land. 85-90 was painful enough the first time, by the 3rd character I wanted to scream.
How is it different???? Really? Because if you had a mage max level you went through the work to get him there not just pay to win.
This is exactly what is wrong with this game and any it has gone down hill. People just wanted to be handed things or to have "pay to win", Stop being lazy and do it your own self show some pride in your characters not just let it be a lazy money sink.
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There was a post back in the day from BLIZZARD saying this is against what they believe the direction the game should go.... And they did it anyway.. Look at D3 that game is totally pay to win you can go drop 5$ and deck a character out and Boom hardest content down supa quick.
This is the exact reason to have a service like this. People get sick of leveling through the same shitty content over and over and over again. At least blizzard would make customers happy by allowing them to skip the leveling process (with some limitations), and also make a profit from providing them a service that is not required and does not give any player any power advantage over another player.
A guy walks into a doctors office for an appointment. When the doctor asked him what was wrong, he stated that every time he poked his arm, his finger hurt. You know what the doctor said? Stop poking your arm.
Why level a 3rd character if you don't enjoy it? You can get your raiding/PvP experience on the first two, right?
Hey, remember when I dropped my keys and you thought the phone was ringing?
I think you have a really narrow minded view of Diablo 3, and that means you probably havent played it, or are one of those guys who wrote it off as a huge failure, when in fact many hundreds of thousands of people play diablo 3 on a daily basis. Its still a great game, it just was never meant to be aimed at the "gimmie gimmie gimmie!" crowd of entitled MMO gamers who feel they need to have constant patches and updates of new content. Diablo 2 was never like that, you just had false expectations.
Enough of off topic conversation anyway.
Paying simply to skip a level or two is no different than instant dinging your extra account to instant 80 through recruit a friend.
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Cause maybe.. juuuuuuust maybe, people enjoy having more than one character at end game??
RAF isn't designed to be a pay to win service, it's meant to be as the name suggests, you recruiting and helping a friend get into the game. People using it to multibox level are abusing the system.
I wish I could be a troll as great as you one day Jaylock, the amount of responses you get every time is incredible
The content is all there, so that argument is completely invalid. You could go back and do all those quests and dungeons at max level, and still get to experience that content.
Your logic is astounding, and i'm surprised you feel the way you do about me "doing this all the time"
Those prices are crazy for a small few levels. With prices like that you would basically be saying "don't you this service, fool", so don't bother adding it at all...
If they paid for the second account, why would it matter how that second account is used? Obviously blizzard doesn't care either or else they would investigate and start banning people for powerleveling their characters up using the system.
Again, how is paying for an insta ding service any different than the insta ding system that RaF allows?


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I lost all my pics&apps! HELP
When i first got my phone i didnt connect it to itunes right away. I had taken a few pictures and set up a few apps into folders but when i connected it it all disappeared.
Well now that i've had it for awhile i've gotten a lot more pictures and when i connected my phone to itunes again i noticed my phone didnt have any of my new apps or pictures/videos..it had gone back to how I had it before I connected to itunes the first time. With those few pictures that had disappeared in the beginning, and my apps in folders the way I had it then too.
Did my phone somehow switch to something? Is there any way to get these pics back?
PLEASE someone help, I lost pictures from my sons first birthday party today!!!
I am stupid when it comes to this kind of stuff so be as straight forward and basic with your instructions or I will have no idea what your talking about!
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Do you back up to the Cloud or local to iTunes?
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To the OP of this post and John... It sounds to me that you DO NOT have any apps in iTunes nor pictures so just like my iPod with over 1000+ songs, If I delete several they go away when I do a sync.
Do you have these pics on your computer where when you hook up your phone to iTunes you can click on pics and bring the folders into iTunes as well as the same thing with the App Store, Do you have these apps in iTunes from the app store? If you have both as I said and then sync everything that is in iTunes should sync to your phone.
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Currently accepting user questions—Nicola will select several of them weekly and respond personally.
If you didn't catch video of Nicola responding to a sexual predator on a NYC subway and the amazing bystanders who helped stop the man and film the incident, you can catch up here. We're reposting, because it's THAT good:
Maybe Yale needs to begin offering introductory civil rights courses to its administrators—we know of a group of men and women who can help teach them. 16 students have filed a complaint alleging the school has systemically failed to adequately address incidents of sexual harassment and assault by other students.
And the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is investigating.
The school risks losing federal funding if found in violation of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964:
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…"
We support the women and men at Yale who are working to make their campus a fair and equitable place.
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First off, may I say that I am 15 years old, and I have been harassed on the street since I was 12 years old! My most memorable experiences:
I was 12 and walking back from a Neighbourhood festival with a friend of mine and this beat up pickup truck drove by; some 40-something year old guy with a cowboy hat honked, and leaned out the window to shout some obscene remark to us and took off.
Two summers ago (age 14), I had finished up a play at the local high school, and a friend and I were walking to a Culvers a few blocks over. It was about 10:30pm and we had one block of a dark, deserted street. This Honda Pilot drove down the street, and we saw the driver look out his window, slow down, and deliberately whistle at us. He then drove to the end of the street, made a U-turn, and drive even more slowly past us AGAIN, and whistled once more. Luckily the director of the play pulled up next to us and asked if we wanted a ride, so we didn't have to risk him passing us again.
This past summer (age 15), I was at a metro bus transfer point and was waiting for my mother to pick me up, and some guy started to walk towards me. The alarms went off in my head, so I grabbed my bag and walked to the Walgreens across the street. Lo and behold – he followed! I tried to trip him up by weaving randomly through several aisles, but he still followed. I finally ducked into the bathroom for about 10 minutes and waited till he left. He never said anything, but that was the creepiest part!
About two months ago (still 15) I was taking a bus out to my theater (I'm in a youth Shakespeare group) with a friend to watch a rehearsal because we had school off, and this guy was on the bus. At first he overheard us talking about the theater and asked some polite questions, but then he started asking our names and where we went to school, and it felt too personal. I shortly afterwards became homeschooled, and take a bus out to the school each day for a chemistry class. I saw him again frequently, and he would always smile and stare at me, and stand or sit in a way so as to always have a clear view. One time, in a nearly empty bus, he sat down right in front of me, then turned his entire torso around to face me, and smiled at me while staring at my chest. It wasn't a glance, either – this stare was for several minutes! He never said anything, and didn't touch, but his very presence and the way he was blatantly staring just made me feel violated. I finally told him "Okay, stop." And got up to get off the bus (thankfully my stop wasn't to far after he got on. I haven't seen him since, but the experience always sticks with me as my creepiest.
A very recent one (this past Friday), I was on State Street with my dad and sister to see a movie as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival. It was about 9 at night, and we had stopped in a little market to buy my sister something to eat, and I stood near the door looking at magazines. As I was flipping through one, I heard something along the lines of "come here, sexy!", I look up and there are some college age guys passing the door and staring at me. When they saw that I heard them, another leers at me and calls out "HHEEEEYYOOO" and they leave. It was unnerving – even if they couldn't see my dad – that this would happen when I was with family, and even more that my dad didn't hear it.
Other less creepy ones, but still unnerving nonetheless was when actors of my theater gather to perform scenes on Capital Square (during the Farmer's Market) in order to advertise the Theater, there have been several instances when an elderly man would walk up and give me money – to "support the arts" they say – while leering at my chest. Some old sweaty man was staring a friend and my chests while trying to find out our schools and where we live. We brushed him off.
Also, once, when I was still in school, I was walking to my health class, and there were two classmates of mine and some random other friend of theres sitting on the floor in the hallway. I was wearing a dress that day, and the random guy leaned forward, then looked at my face and asked my name. I realized he had looked up my skirt (sucks for him – I wear shorts under all dresses or skirts).
One time I was at the mall and I went to a store in the food court to buy some water. I didn't have the right amount of money with the tax added in (about 50 cents short), so I was trying to say "nevermind" and go somewhere else, when the guy insisted to chip in for me and wished me "a nice day, gorgeous" as I left. Slightly flattering if by someone my age who I knew, but out-of-line in the circumstance.
Last one: When I was still in public school, I was walking back to class from the bathroom, and there was this kid (freshman) standing in the hall with a friend of his. As I passed, he said "hey" and I responded accordingly. He then proceeded to plant himself in my path, forcing me to stop, and asked me how I was. I shortly replied that I was fine, annoyed by then. Not getting the message, he then decided to inform me that "I like how you mooove" in a ridiculous voice, making it clear he had been watching my ass as I had was walking by him. I gave him a dirty look and went around him, and that was the end of it.
I don't get where men have decided that now, today, in the 21st Century, women are to be treated as pieces of meat solely there for the male viewing pleasure, and that we don't care when we are catcalled, whistled, followed, "complimented" and in any other way violated. It's awful that it's become so ingrained in society that when I confided in a friend, she told me to "flip him off, laugh and let it be. It happens". It happens BECAUSE we let it be! Unfortunately none of my incidents had been easy to report – or reportable at all, in the eyes of the cops – or had happened to quickly for me to actually berate, so they've gone without punishment.
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This happened the day before spring break, before I found this site, and I feel terrible for not saying something.
I'm new at my school, so I don't get a lot of attention, which is a good thing. I was sitting next to this girl, looking out the window, minding my own business, when I overhear a guy in the seat behind me say, "Hey girl, you wanna get with this?" The girl sitting next to me said, "No, thanks," and turned back around. For the rest of the ride, he kept asking her if she wanted to have sex with him, how big his penis was, and at one point he even said, "What, you a lesbo or something?" She kept quietly saying, "No," but he wouldn't leave her alone. I wanted so badly to turn to her and say, "You don't have to put up with this, there's an empty seat up front, you can move," but I was just too afraid. He kept harassing her the whole ride, even as I was getting off.
I really wish I had said something, but now I promise myself that the next time I see another woman being harassed, I will stand up and I will speak.
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Across the nation, many cuts are being made to the services provided for women who have been in domestic violence situations.
This study looks at the willingness of domestic violence survivors to seek help both from their family and from the government funded resources provided in their community (including shelters, support groups, and online help).
The study consists of statements to which respondents agree or disagree. At the end, you may provide more detailed responses if you wish, but it is not required.
There questionnaire won't take more than 10 minutes to complete.
It does not deal with the personal experiences of domestic violence but a list of possible triggers.
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Our efforts to oust 'journalist' Juan Terranova for publishing his wish to rape an anti-street harassment activist are still going strong. Rape threats are not funny, clever, or thought-provoking. Join us tomorrow (Saturday, April 2) to keep the momentum going.
Terranova will be participating in a one-day online reality show TOMORROW with six other Hispanic 'literary' figures.
His broadcast will be on this page:
Users will be able to make comments during the live broadcast (Terranova will be on from 2:45 – 4:30 PM or 1:45-3:30 EST) through the website as well as Facebook and Twitter. We want to send a message to Terranova that says that we will not tolerate rape threats!
You can tweet him at @juanterranova or comment directly on the website.
If you don't speak Spanish, you can use this message, "Las insinuaciones de violencia y violación no son graciosas, astutas ni invitan a la reflexión. Disculpas a la representante de Hollaback." which translates to: "Threats of violence and rape are not funny, clever or thought-provoking. Apologize to the representative of Hollaback."
This April marks the tenth anniversary of SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month), and the awesome activists at SAFER (Students Active For Ending Rape) are calling for a push from awareness to activism, making this years' SAAM stand for Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month. Students, recent alumni, parents, and teachers are encouraged to participate by "pledging" a direct action against sexual assault this month, whether by fundraising, submitting their definition of accountability to the SAFER website, or checking up on their schools' sexual assault policy and pushing for reform where necessary.
Check out this video for some student submissions of what accountability looks like to them:
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Hollaback is hard at work finding creative and effective ways to shut down street harassment, and we have a new project under way – but we need your help! We want to launch a line of t-shirts, stickers, posters and pins so you can put your fed-up feelings on display. Wouldn't it be snazzy to have a shirt that told off harassers for you? Wouldn't it be neat to be strolling down the street and see another Hollaback supporter sporting a pin and know they've got your back? What would you print on that shirt? What would the pin look like?
We have limited resources and have to start off with a small batch of shirts and products, so we want the snappiest, smartest, prettiest designs out there – in other words, we want YOUR designs! This is your chance to spread your message via our products – and it's a great way of supporting Hollaback by donating your creativity and design skills. Please submit your original artwork, slogans, or design ideas today!
Here are the details:
* Send submissions to [email protected]. Please attach files in jpg or psd format. We will be considering submissions for only the next two weeks, so rev up your creativity and get to work!
* Please do not send any images, quotes or material that is not your own work without attributing its source so we can obtain use permission.
* Be judicious in using swear words – we want to reach as broad of an audience as possible, so we avoid profanity where possible.
* Any artwork or material submitted will not receive compensation and may be used by Hollaback! to support its nonprofit, tax-exempt work of ending street harassment.
* If you have a great idea for a design but don't have the graphic design skills to lay it out, we'd love to hear your ideas as well! Send 'em along!
The deadline is: APRIL 14th, 5PM EST.
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In 'Why Loiter?' authors Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan, and Shilpa Ranade argue that though political and economic visibility has brought women increased access to urban public space, this has not automatically translated into a greater claim to public space. Based on more than three years of research, this book not only maps women's exclusion from several public spaces, but also attempts to understand how women from different localities, classes and communities negotiate with real and implied risks of being in public everyday.
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Monday, 11 February 2013
One rainy afternoon
Over the weekend, during a rare child-less wander around town with my sister-in-law, she asked what the local library was like.
To my horror, I realised we weren't members. We've been living here for nine months and haven't yet made it to the top of the high street to claim our library cards. Shameful!
I love libraries and books and yet for some reason, seeking out our new local had totally slipped my mind.
And so today, we did what should have been done months ago. We spent two lovely hours pottering about, reading and choosing books. Ollie headed straight for the transport section. Lila headed straight for the stairs - oh how she loves to climb. They both enjoyed sitting in the reading nook. And we came home with the biggest stack, with a very definite theme - super cars, stock cars, fast super cars, monster machines, speed machines. I'm sure our boy will be a racing car driver one day.
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Yes, we love the library. We usually go every other week, although in the winter I find we are going weekly. I usually grab a tea on the way and we hang around reading books, playing and choosing books to bring home. Always a great way to spend the afternoon.
ReplyDeleteAwww beautiful photos Anna, such little cuties. Looks like a gorgeous library... I'm a little ashamed to admit we have NEVER been to our local library... and we LOVE books! You have inspired me with your lovely post though.
And has it really been 9 months since you left Aust?? My goodness that has gone fast!
xoI am a member of our local library but I can't remember the last time I got a book out! How terrible! Summer is my novel reading season when I have a breath of air from a year of full-on post-grad study. I shall make more of an effort to visit!
xoVery sweet photos. We like our little library but don't visit often enough, even though it's only a ten minute walk away. I love letting the kids go mad and choose their own books though, they choose the most random stuff!
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The protests in UC Berkeley continue, although one might expect that rising fees from 20 000 to 30 000 would make everybody involved. This is not the case at Berkeley, so the fees will probably rise again, because the public does not seem to be a common thing here. Today strike started with a live streaming connestion with the occupied Vienna University (skype+video+large screen), than there was a series of lectures in the Open University (Michalel Cohen and T.J.Clark among others), the capoeira beautiful band, a couple of rallies, trash at the administration office (unfortunately no pics from that here) and some people still staying at the campus.
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