Fiction
How to Be Alone: Essays
A Picador paperback of Jonathan Franzen's essays on privacy, loneliness, the American novel, and his brief tenure as an Oprah author. The prose is urgent, slightly aggrieved, and consistently intelligent. The cover is the muted Picador design that signals literary nonfiction, with the small author photograph and the careful typography. It is the kind of book that asks you to take its anxieties seriously. Picador acquired it after the original hardcover and gave it the softcover format it probably deserved from the start. Ideal reader: the person who feels crowded by the internet and wants a pre-social-media diagnosis, or the fiction reader curious about what Franzen believed he was defending.
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