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Our 25th season begins with American writer Jonathan Franzen. Dubbed "The Great American Novelist," he created a stir some years ago with his novel The Corrections. His latest blockbuster is called Purity.

Jonathan Franzen is the first author in ten years to make the cover of Time magazine with the banner headline, Great American Novelist. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to him in 2001 about his bestseller, The Corrections. Now he has a new blockbuster, Freedom, which tracks the lives of an unconventional family through a time of crisis. Franzen speaks candidly with Eleanor Wachtel about the experiences that have fueled his current fiction: his "misfit" adolescent years and occasional struggle with…