Mr. Difficult

A podcast about Jonathan Franzen, ft. @SomersErin, @alex_shephard, and @eric_jett

[Alana Pockros @APockros]

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

[Alex Shephard @alex_shephard]

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

[dunn @get_ir_Dunn]

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

[Mr. Difficult @MrDifficultPod]

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 https://t.co/TzRzvY3qzL

[Alex Shephard @alex_shephard]

"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."

[Leo Robson @leorobsonwriter]

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. . .

https://t.co/RoyADKDHai

[Mr. Difficult @MrDifficultPod]

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! https://t.co/QIBRoDgn6u

[Mr. Difficult @MrDifficultPod]

@dakoda29 very soon!

[Mr. Difficult @MrDifficultPod]

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 [email protected]

[Syosset Public Library @SyossetLibrary]

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

[Mr. Difficult @MrDifficultPod]

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

[Mr. Difficult @MrDifficultPod]

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 [email protected]

[Alex Shephard @alex_shephard]

please send us questions! some possible examples: "Why did you do this?" and "What is wrong with you?" https://t.co/JwFZLwJ3DC

[Mr. Difficult @MrDifficultPod]

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