Jonathan Franzen is a American novelist and essayist.
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-  Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
-  Voices in the Wilderness (The Guardian, Saturday 28 September 2002)
 
-  An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.
-  Voices in the Wilderness (The Guardian, Saturday 28 September 2002)
 
-  Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
-  Voices in the Wilderness (The Guardian, Saturday 28 September 2002)