But at times, it can be difficult to discern where Franzen stands on any particular subject, as he often takes both sides of an argument. At his best, as in „My Father's Brain,” a piece on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's, Franzen can make the ordinary world utterly riveting. post office, New York City, big tobacco, and new prisons.
A long, much-discussed rumination on the American novel, (newly) titled „Why Bother?,” is included, as well as essays on privacy obsession, the U.S. Many of the 14 essays in How to Be Alone, by the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Corrections, first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and elsewhere.
Jonathan Franzen is smart and brash, the kind of person you want as your social critic but not as a brother-in-law.
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