A review by maryparapluie
Farther Away, by Jonathan Franzen

4.0

There are a number of essays in this collection that are among Franzen's best-- unfortunately, mostly these are weighted in the first half of the book... and a lot of the rest feels a little like erudite filler. Which is not to say that the filler isn't interesting, it's just not as compelling and fully realized as the best pieces. Full of Franzen's ruminations on the role of fiction and what makes fiction good and which authors are undervalued today.