Tapestry | Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
The Republic of Bad Taste
The church on Siegfeldstrasse was open to anyone who embarrassed the Republic, and Andreas Wolf was so much of an embarrassment that he actually resided there
How He Came To Be Nowhere
Room 471, the Federal Building, Eighth Street, Philadelphia: a perfectly square room which for no obvious reason had an eye chart on the southern wall.
Chez Lambert
Enid and Alfred are an older couple who have lived together for many years and yet each has their own tendencies and imperfections.
Baader-Meinhof
She knew there was someone else in the room. There was no outright noise, just an intimation behind her, a faint displacement of air.
Breakup Stories
Our friend Danni’s young husband had been intending, since before he was her husband, to talk about his feelings about having children
Two's Company
And then the perfect couple, Pam and Paul, who first hooked up in college, co-writing operettas and co-founding a cabaret, went on to amaze their classmates by marrying in Reno.
Human Moments in World War III
A note about Vollmer. He no longer describes the earth as a library globe or a map that has come alive, as a cosmic eye staring into deep space.
Good Neighbors
Walter and Patty Berglund were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hill—the first college grads to buy a house on Barrier Street.
Agreeable
If Patty hadn’t been an atheist, she might have thanked the good Lord for school athletic programs, because they basically saved her life
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