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When guests come into Studio 360 and get settled, I tend to have a bit of friendly small talk with them before we start theOfficial Interview. But asJonathan Franzenand I chit-chatted earlier this week as we prepared to talk about his terrific new novelFreedom, one bit of that talk wasn’t so small. When I passingly, […]

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Franzen & Chocolate Genius

Kurt Andersen talks to novelist Jonathan Franzen about his new book, Freedom, and why families remain so central to his fiction. In Camden, New Jersey – a town plagued by blight and violence – folks behind a new theater hope it can help the city turn around. And the singer Chocolate Genius performs live in […]

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