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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
by
Jonathan Franzen
May 3, 2017 - May 3, 2017
(read/literary-criticism/essay-collections)
Franzen, J. (2006). The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History. Farrar Straus Giroux.
p.152
ein abgekartetes Spiel »
p.146
self-aggrandizing »
the act of enhancing or exaggerating one's own im…
p.109
transom »
(noun) a strengthening crossbar, in particular on…
p.94
trammeled »
(verb) to catch or hold in or as if in a net; enm…
p.38
sui generis »
(adjective) constituting a class alone; unique pe…
p.187
Birds not only want to use our valuable land, the…
p.184
Always, in the past, I'd felt like a failure at t…
p.170
[...] I'd replied that, in the Hegelian system, a…
p.165
Returning to Queens, we could no longer stand to …
p.145
[...] It was this other side of Avery--the fact t…
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House for Sale
Franzen tries to sell his mother's house after her death and reflects on his childhood and his parents' relationship in the process
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House for Sale
Franzen tries to sell his mother's house after her death and reflects on his childhood and his parents' relationship in the process
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Two Ponies
about the Peanuts comic strip
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Then Joy Breaks Through
about his Christian upbringing (through after-school programs, camp, etc)
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Then Joy Breaks Through
about his Christian upbringing (through after-school programs, camp, etc)
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Centrally Located
weird one about attempted acts of vandalism with his buddies during high school
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Centrally Located
weird one about attempted acts of vandalism with his buddies during high school
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The Foreign Language
about how he started learning German in college (Swarthmore). this one was pretty interesting because he talked about German literature, specifically Kafka's The Trial (see notes 139, 145)
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The Foreign Language
about how he started learning German in college (Swarthmore). this one was pretty interesting because he talked about German literature, specifically Kafka's The Trial (see notes 139, 145)
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My Bird Problem
his addiction to birding (though by all accounts he wasn't particularly great at it), used as a vehicle to explore the larger topic of environmental degradation as well as the problems in his love life throughout the years (basically he got married really young and it didn't work out ... seems kind of like Tom and Anabel in Purity)
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157
My Bird Problem
his addiction to birding (though by all accounts he wasn't particularly great at it), used as a vehicle to explore the larger topic of environmental degradation as well as the problems in his love life throughout the years (basically he got married really young and it didn't work out ... seems kind of like Tom and Anabel in Purity)
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