Philip Weinstein is the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College, USA. The recipient of several NEH Fellowships and an ACLS Fellowship, and past President of the Faulkner Society, Weinstein has written books that range from James to Faulkner and Morrison (in American literature), and from Dickens through Joyce (in British literature). These include Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (1996), Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (2005). Weinstein's Becoming Faulkner (2010) was the recipient of the Hugh Holman Award for the best book written on Southern Literature. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (1995).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductoryChapter One – Becoming Jonathan FranzenChapter Two – A Bugged World: The Twenty-Seventh City Chapter Three – Something Wrong in the Underbrush: Strong MotionChapter Four – Status and Contract, Collapse and ArrivalChapter Five – All in the Family: The CorrectionsChapter Six – Taking and Mistaking: FreedomChapter Seven – The New YorkerAfterword – Hungering for Clean: PurityIndex

...synthesizes from Franzen’s conversations and correspondence with Weinstein, extant interviews, and Franzen’s own writings a convincing psychological portrait of an author who recovered from depressive years of being angry with himself by projecting that anger and rage outward and then finding love of himself and others.

Philip Weinstein is the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College, USA. The recipient of several NEH Fellowships and an ACLS Fellowship, and past President of the Faulkner Society, Weinstein has written books that range from James to Faulkner and Morrison (in American literature), and from Dickens through Joyce (in British literature). These include Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (1996), Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (2005). Weinstein's Becoming Faulkner (2010) was the recipient of the Hugh Holman Award for the best book written on Southern Literature. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (1995).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductoryChapter One – Becoming Jonathan FranzenChapter Two – A Bugged World: The Twenty-Seventh City Chapter Three – Something Wrong in the Underbrush: Strong MotionChapter Four – Status and Contract, Collapse and ArrivalChapter Five – All in the Family: The CorrectionsChapter Six – Taking and Mistaking: FreedomChapter Seven – The New YorkerAfterword – Hungering for Clean: PurityIndex

...synthesizes from Franzen’s conversations and correspondence with Weinstein, extant interviews, and Franzen’s own writings a convincing psychological portrait of an author who recovered from depressive years of being angry with himself by projecting that anger and rage outward and then finding love of himself and others.

Philip Weinstein is the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College, USA. The recipient of several NEH Fellowships and an ACLS Fellowship, and past President of the Faulkner Society, Weinstein has written books that range from James to Faulkner and Morrison (in American literature), and from Dickens through Joyce (in British literature). These include Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (1996), Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (2005). Weinstein's Becoming Faulkner (2010) was the recipient of the Hugh Holman Award for the best book written on Southern Literature. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (1995).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductoryChapter One – Becoming Jonathan FranzenChapter Two – A Bugged World: The Twenty-Seventh City Chapter Three – Something Wrong in the Underbrush: Strong MotionChapter Four – Status and Contract, Collapse and ArrivalChapter Five – All in the Family: The CorrectionsChapter Six – Taking and Mistaking: FreedomChapter Seven – The New YorkerAfterword – Hungering for Clean: PurityIndex

...synthesizes from Franzen’s conversations and correspondence with Weinstein, extant interviews, and Franzen’s own writings a convincing psychological portrait of an author who recovered from depressive years of being angry with himself by projecting that anger and rage outward and then finding love of himself and others.