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Jonathan Franzen he of the hefty tomes is embarking on his loftiest literary project yet. The author has written five novels (in addition to five nonfiction works) but is best known for 2001 s
The Corrections (winner of the National Book Award) and 2010 s
Freedom. Both are multigenerational family sagas dealing with loss, marital strife, and what can be crudely boiled down to as midlife crises and they weigh in at 576 and 608 pages, respectively. Now Franzen will be bringing his legions of fans a trilogy of much of the same.
A Key to All Mythologies will follow three generations harking back to the early 20th century and running through to the present and promises to trace the inner life of our culture, according to publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The first volume,
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is not unknown to many readers. In fact, most people who pick up her new memoir,
Unfinished (out Tuesday), will already know much of her life story how she got her start in pageantry, eventually being crowned Miss World; her domination of Bollywood; her foray into American television and film; her marriage to fellow A-lister Nick Jonas. What the actress hopes to do with the book is to offer something to fill in the blanks, what she describes as everything that happens in between interviews. She spoke with EW from her home in London, where, fittingly, she was balancing pre-press for her film
In
Little Fish, the new indie film starring Olivia Cooke and Jack O Connell, a mysterious memory-destroying illness is sweeping across the country. The central couple are falling in love while the world is falling apart cities are quarantined in an attempt to stave off the spread of the disease, flights are grounded, treatments are desperately rushed through to consumers. It sounds like a project that was conceived and greenlit during the COVID era, but it s actually based on a short story written by novelist Aja Gabel almost a decade ago. You can read the full story here, published online for the first time, and below Gabel talks to EW about her eerie timing.