Mr. Difficult

one of the best designs in the new @clereviewbooks issue is big Franzen. Pick one up tonight ;)

why do all of Jonathan Franzen's TV pilots keep failing

Drinking wine and listening to the absurdly pretentious (but also my new favourite) podcast @MrDifficultPod was the perfect day to spend a snow day in Vancouver.

Last week the news was about consolidation in the railroad industry. This week...

It's the final episode of Mr. Difficult season 1! Don't cry cause it's over.....smile cause it happened

The final episode of the Jonathan Franzen era of Mr. Difficult is here! In this episode we finally answer the question that hangs over this entire project: Is Jonathan Franzen good? (Yes. Mostly.) And we also rank all of his books mrdifficult.com/episode-14-sea…

"Here is the truth that Franzen has repeatedly observed in domestic life: Obliquely or directly, all crises have to do with mothers; with the burden of familial devotion or the passing down of feelings of inadequacy."

Let Franzen cook.

Currently listening to this and laughing like an idiot. It's good!

For the wonderful @MrDifficultPod, I chatted to @alex_shephard @SomersErin and @eric_jett about Alex's 12th favourite Jonathan Franzen book The End of the End of the Earth – and birds, social realism, memoir, Edith Wharton. . . open.spotify.com/episode/4T9ZZT…

The End of the End of the Earth podcast is here! We'll have one more after this (ranking all 13 Jonathan Franzen books) but this is our final book-focused episode of this season! mrdifficult.com/episode-13-the…

@dakoda29 very soon!

We're recording our final episode—in which we will reveal the official, definitive ranking of all of Jonathan Franzen's books—on Monday! If you have any questions you'd like us to answer about this deranged project, send them here or to contact@mrdifficult.com

I'd love the next volume of Jonathan Franzen's The Key to All Mythologies trilogy. Not sure if it is even written yet, but I so want to know how the Hilderbrant family copes with the 1980's . It's been almost a year and I need more Franzen @MacmillanLib @MrDifficultPod

we're recording this evening! ask us anything (about Jonathan Franzen)

please send us questions! some possible examples: "Why did you do this?" and "What is wrong with you?" twitter.com/MrDifficultPod…

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The final episode of **this season** of Mr. Difficult, I should say. More soon! 👀👀