'The welcome paradox in How to Be Alone is that the reader need not feel isolated at all... This collection emphasizes [Franzen's] elegance, acumen and daring as an essayist, with an intellectually engaging self-awareness as formidable as Joan Didion's' Janet Maslin, The New York Times

'One of the most nuanced minds at work in the dwindling republic of letters.' Richard Lacayo, Time

'It's clear that Mr. Franzen has got hold of a pitch he likes, and he simply crushes it. Bystanders will be forgiven the instinct to whistle in awe as they watch the ball disappear into the furthest reaches of contemporary fiction... At the [novel's] end, I wished only that it would go on.' Daniel Akst, The Wall Street Journal
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