National Book Award-winning novelist and essayist Jonathan Franzen visited Butler recently to read and talk about craft with the community at large. Franzen, who is best known for his 2001 novel The Corrections, has also written three other novels, most recently 2010’s Freedom, as well as three volumes of non-fiction and two translations.
Franzen discussed, among other things, his writing routine, his guest-appearance on The Simpsons, and his favorite off-color joke.