A podcast about Jonathan Franzen, ft. @SomersErin, @alex_shephard, and @eric_jett
Joined September 2021
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Mr. Difficult retweeted
7 Dec 2023
one of the best designs in the new @clereviewbooks issue is big Franzen. Pick one up tonight ;)
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Mr. Difficult retweeted
19 Apr 2023
why do all of Jonathan Franzen's TV pilots keep failing
19 Apr 2023
A hunting contest in New Zealand where children under the age of 14 were to compete to kill the greatest number of feral cats for a cash prize has been canceled after a backlash from animal rights organizations.
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Mr. Difficult retweeted
5 Dec 2022
Last week the news was about consolidation in the railroad industry. This week...
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28 Oct 2022
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-s…
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Mr. Difficult retweeted
15 Sep 2022
"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."
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Mr. Difficult retweeted
12 Sep 2022
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/4T9…
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9 Sep 2022
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-t…
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Mr. Difficult retweeted
21 Jul 2022
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
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11 Jul 2022
we're recording this evening! ask us anything (about Jonathan Franzen)
7 Jul 2022
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
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Mr. Difficult retweeted
7 Jul 2022
please send us questions! some possible examples: "Why did you do this?" and "What is wrong with you?" x.com/MrDifficultPod/status/…
7 Jul 2022
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
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7 Jul 2022
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
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7 Jul 2022
The final episode of **this season** of Mr. Difficult, I should say. More soon! 👀👀
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