01615cam a2200253 4500 513085552 TxAuBib 20120611120000.0 120308s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011046067 9780374153571 alk. paper 0374153574 alk. paper (OCoLC)759175040 DLC eng DLC BTCTA YDXCP BDX UPZ TxAuBib Franzen, Jonathan. Farther away / Jonathan Franzen. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 321 p. Pain won't kill you (2011) -- Farther away (2011) -- The greatest family ever storied (2010) -- Hornets (2010) -- The ugly Mediterranean (2010) -- The corn king (2010) -- On autobiographical fiction (2009) -- I just called to say I love you (2008) -- The end of the binge (2008) -- David Foster Wallace (2008) -- The Chinese puffin (2008) -- On the laughing policeman (2008) -- Comma-then (2008) -- Authentic but horrible (2007) -- Interview with New York state (2007) -- Love letters (2005) -- Our little planet (2005) -- What makes you so sure you're not the evil one yourself? (2004) -- Our relations (2004) -- The man in the gray flannel suit (2002) -- No end to it. In "Farther Away," which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. 20120611. Essays.