title: Self-Publishing Simplified: Experience Your Book Publishing Dreams at Outskirts Press
author:  Brent Sampson 
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  ALSO BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
  
  
  NOVELS
  
  
  _Freedom_  
   _The Corrections_  
   _Strong Motion_  
   _The Twenty-Seventh City_
  
  
  NONFICTION
  
  
  _Farther Away_  
   _The Discomfort Zone_  
   _How to Be Alone_
  
  
  TRANSLATION
  
  
  _The Kraus Project_ (Karl Kraus)  
   _Spring Awakening_ (Frank Wedekind)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2015 Jonathan Franzen
  
  
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  Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, USA
  
  
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