Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Jonathan Franzen’s 'Purity'
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Purity came out this month and is already number two on the New York Times bestseller list. But it’s also been controversial. Purity has been called everything from a masterpiece to sexist to nonsense. So what does the author make of it all?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readJonathan Franzen’s new novel Purity came out this month and is already number two on the New York Times bestseller list. But it’s also been controversial. Purity has been called everything from a masterpiece to sexist to nonsense. So what does the author make of it all? Franzen sat down recently with KCRW’s bookworm, Michael Silverblatt, to talk about his new book.
